Best-Selling Author Of 'The Housemaid' Reveals Secret Identity As MA Doctor: Reports

Plot twist!

Freida McFadden, the best-selling author of "The Housemaid" has revealed her true, secret identity as a Massachusetts doctor, according to reports.

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"When she first began publishing, she lived a Hannah Montana-worthy double life as a doctor but kept the two personas separate," USA Today reported.

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"She said her real name is Sara Cohen, and she works as a brain doctor when not writing books," according to Variety.

"The author has never made a secret of the fact Freida McFadden is a pseudonym, and that she also works as a doctor, but had never revealed her real name," per the BBC.

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"Cohen stepped back from working full-time as a doctor in 2023, a year after releasing 'The Housemaid,'" according to Deadline. "And although her co-workers discovered her pseudonym, they were “really nice about it” and even kept her secret."

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McFadden has "penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels," her website says.

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