Alice McVeigh was born in South Korea, of American diplomatic parents, and lived in Asia until she was 13, when the family returned to Washington D.C.  After achieving a B.Mus. with distinction at the internationally acclaimed Jacobs School of Music, she came to London to study with Jacqueline du Pré and William Pleeth. Since then, she has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique all over Europe, America and Asia.

Her first two contemporary novels – While the Music Lasts and Ghost Music – were published by Orion Publishing/Hachette, and her first play (Beating Time) put on at the Lewisham Theatre. (The film rights to her first book were also sold, to Channel 4, but Mozart in the Jungle got there first!).In Feb. 2021 Last Star Standing, was published by Unbound Publishing under her pen name, Spaulding Taylor, on February 18, 2021. (Kirkus-starred, US Review of Books recommended, finalist in Chanticleer’s Cygnus Award) was tenth on Amazon’s hot new releases in science fiction.)On June 30, 2021, SUSAN, the first in her series of Jane Austenesque novels was published (quarterfinalist for the famous BookLife Prize, winner of gold medals in the Pencraft, eLit, Global and Historical Fiction Company Book awards). HARRIET followed in 2022 (finalist in ‘General fiction’ in the international Foreword Indies “Book of the Year” award). DARCY was just published on June 30, 2023.

Alice is married to Professor Simon McVeigh, and lives in London. They have one daughter, who has just accepted a Presidential Scholarship for her Harvard Ph.D. Apart from music and fiction, Alice’s is most addicted to tennis. She is a powerful but notably inaccurate tennis player, with the dubious distinction of being the perpetual ladies’ singles runner-up at her – very, very – local tennis club.