Dr. Lona Bailey is an award-winning researcher and author specializing in the Golden Age of Hollywood. She has written acclaimed biographies including Uncredited: The Life and Career of Actress Virginia Gregg, Voice of Villainy: The Betty Lou Gerson Story, Mrs. Radio: The Cathy Lewis Story, and Some Small Nobility: The Biography of Joan Banks Lovejoy.

With a PhD and a background as a therapist, Dr. Bailey is dedicated to sharing the untold stories of women from Hollywood's Golden Age, with a focus on feminist legacy preservation. Her book Voice of Villainy was a finalist for the 2023 International Book Awards and won the Gold Medal in the 2023 Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards.

An Amazon bestselling author, Dr. Bailey has been featured on The Wolfe Den Show, Film Daily, and The Los Angeles Tribune. In 2025, she will release Lead Thou Me On: Titanic's Countess of Rothes and The Enduring Feministic Legacy of the Wicked Witch of the West, which Gregory Maguire praised as "a riveting analysis."