She attended Northfield Mount Hermon School and Yale College where she majored in History.
She is the author of multiple books, including Quality of Care; Family Planning; The Butter Man; The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman the Horse that Inspired a Nation, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
;,[1] The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis, which reached #5 on the New York Times bestseller list;[2] Finding Dorothy; and The Ride of Her Life.
Elizabeth Letts also writes women's fiction under the pen name Nora Carroll.
[citation needed]and her father, J. Spencer Letts was a Federal District Court Judge.