Katharine McGee is the New York Times bestselling author of the Thousandth Floor series. She studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. Katharine's dream job has always been to work as a Disney princess, but when she learned she wasn't tall enough, she wound up writing instead. She's been speculating about American royalty since her undergraduate days, when she wrote a thesis on "castle envy"-the idea that the American psyche is missing out on something, because Americans don't have a royal family of their own. After several years in New York and then in California, Katharine now lives with her husband in her hometown of Houston, Texas.