Pamela Buchanan was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, educated in France, England, and Switzerland, and lives in the South of France. She serves as emeritus trustee on the boards of the Buchanan Foundation of Chicago; the James Gatz Charitable Trust in Bismarck, North Dakota, and the Carraway Institute of St. Paul, Minnesota; all three of which she founded. Her previous books include: American Countess, an account of her first marriage, and Married to Figaro, an account of her second.