[1][2] She graduated from Boston University with a BA (2004) and a master's degree (2006) in classical voice.
[3][4] Quinn's novels often focus on women's unexpected roles in history[5][6] such as military snipers, spies, and code breakers.
Her works have been set in several historical eras, including five novels that take place during the Roman Empire, two books about the Borgias in the Italian Renaissance, and most recently a series of novels set in the 1940s and 1950s, centering on the events during and after the Second World War.
Her 2017 historical fiction novel, The Alice Network, was a New York Times[7] and USA Today bestseller.
The first of these, A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii is in development for a limited series from Amazon studios.