Margaret C. Jones lived in the US for nine years, and taught literature and history at Central Washington University (1990–92). She later lived in Bristol, UK, where she was employed as a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. Her PhD (in American Studies) is from Purdue University, Indiana. In addition to She Spied for Freedom, she is the author of three biographies: The Adventurous Life of Amelia Edwards (Bloomsbury, 2022); Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (Pen & Sword, 2018); and Heretics and Hellraisers (U. of Texas Press, 1993). She lives and writes in Stroud, UK, but spends part of each year in Alexandria, Egypt.