[1][2] Born in Detroit, Boesky studied her undergraduate degree at Harvard College before completing a M.Phil in Renaissance English at the University of Oxford.
Boesky's first contribution to the series was the sixteenth novel, Rags to Riches; she would go on to write fifty books for the Sweet Valley franchise while completing a PhD at Harvard University.
She has written and published widely in this area, from a scholarly book on Renaissance utopias to articles on gifts of timepieces to Queen Elizabeth.
[1] In addition to her scholarly and ghostwriting work, Boesky has also written a book in verse for children, Planet Was (1990) and What We Have, a creative nonfiction memoir.
[1] Boesky lives in Chestnut Hill with her husband, Jacques, and her two daughters, Sacha and Libby.