The Wife Upstairs

Freida McFadden is a physician and best-selling author. She started writing while working as a doctor, crafting a personal blog about the highs and lows of being a woman in medicine. Eventually, she turned her blog entries into her first published book, The Devil Wears Scrubs, which she self-published in 2013 while working full-time and raising her two young children. As a medical professional, she treats brain disorders, and as she writes on her website, her role as a physician has helped her as a writer: “First of all, I’m able to write medical scenarios with a high degree of accuracy. Second, knowing that I had a stable job to pay the bills made me feel more comfortable spending money on marketing” (“Frequently Asked Questions.” Freida McFadden). McFadden now only works one to two days a week as a doctor so that she has time to focus on her writing process. Her writing name is also a pseudonym to preserve her privacy in her daily life.

She stated in an interview with the New York Times that she expected The Devil Wears Scrubs to be both the start and end of her authorial journey (Alter, Alexandra.