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Shannon McKenna Schmidt is the author of You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her (March 2026) and The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back. She is also the co-author of Novel Destinations: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest Hemingway’s Key West and Writers Between the Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads .
In addition, Shannon has written for National Geographic Traveler, Shelf Awareness, History.com, and other websites and publications. She has been a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Studio 2/WHYY, and the Travel Show with Pauline Frommer, and has spoken at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, the National World War II Museum, and many other venues, including bookstores, libraries, museums, and historic sites.
An avid traveler, Shannon spent a seven-year stretch traveling full-time—first in the United States by RV and then backpacking around the globe. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
