New York native Allison Pataki’s newest novel, “The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post,” is her sixth work of historical fiction. The novel covers Post’s youth in Battle Creek, Michigan ...

The film Forrest Gump was inspired by the life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, at least it was if you ask author Allison Pataki. Pataki is the daughter of former New York Gov. George Pataki. She ...

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post Allison Pataki. Ballantine, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-35568-8. ... Stories of the True. Jeyamohan.

The first historical novel about Post’s life, “The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post,” by Allison Pataki, was released by Ballantine Books, a division of Penguin Random House, in February.