Laura Malone Elliot, known by her pen name L. M. Elliot, is an American author of more than a dozen young adult novels, including Under a War-Torn Sky (2001), Give Me Liberty (2008), A Troubled Peace (2009), Da Vinci’s Tiger (2015), Suspect Red (2017), Hamilton and Peggy!

[2] She also holds several national literary awards, such as the NCSS/CBC Notable Book in Social Studies, for her works Under a War-Torn Sky, A Troubled Peace, Suspect Red, and Walls, which were also named Bank Street College of Education Best Books along with Hamilton and Peggy!

A Revolutionary Friendship, a biographical novel about the youngest of the Schuyler Sisters, also received a Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention that same year.

She wrote often on children, women's issues, and health, and co-authored two adult nonfiction works during her time as a journalist.

Elliott lives in Fairfax County, Virginia, and has an adult daughter and son, also professional creative artists.