Jean P. Sasson (born 1950,[1] Troy, Alabama, United States) is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East.

Her strong desire to uproot herself from her rural surroundings led her to jump at the opportunity to work and travel abroad.

In 1978 she traveled to Saudi Arabia to work in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh as an administrative coordinator of medical affairs.,[2] where she met Peter Sasson, her future husband.

They married in 1982 and Sasson left the hospital after four years of service, but the couple remained in Saudi Arabia until 1990.

Former United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Akins and writer Jack Shaheen pointed out what they described as factual inaccuracies and implausibilities in the books.