Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence , First Women --also a New York Times bestseller--and First in Line . She is a CNN contributor who covered the Obama White House for Bloomberg News and is a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times , Vanity Fair , and the Washington Pos t . She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three young children.