Sarah Penner

Sarah Penner is an American author. Her debut novel, The Lost Apothecary, is a New York Times best seller.^[1]

Penner in 2025

Personal life

Penner was born and raised in northeast Kansas.^[2]

She attended the University of Kansas and graduated with a degree in finance.^[2] She currently works in finance full-time and is a member of Historical Novel Society and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association.^[3]

Penner currently lives in Florida with her husband Marc and their miniature dachshund Zoe.^[2]

The Lost Apothecary

The Lost Apothecary is a New York Times bestseller, published March 2, 2021 by Park Row Books.

The book received positive reviews from NPR,^[4] Booklist,^[5] and Library Journal,^[6] as well as a mixed review from Publishers Weekly.^[7] Reader's Digest^[8] and Cosmopolitan^[9] included it in their lists of the best books for the year.

In 2021, it was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction^[10] and for Debut Novel.^[11]

Fox Broadcasting Company is currently working on adapting the book into a television drama series.^[3]

Bibliography

• The Lost Apothecary (2021)
• The London Seance Society (2023)