Eloisa James is a tenured Shakespeare professor at Fordham University who writes best-selling Regency and Georgian romance novels under her pen name.
13 Facts About Eloisa James
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Eloisa James's novels are published in 30 countries and have sold approximately 7 million copies worldwide.
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Eloisa James wrote a bestselling memoir about the year her family spent in France, Paris in Love.
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Eloisa James is the daughter of poet Robert Bly and short-story author Carol Bly.
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Eloisa James was the inspiration for her mother's essay "The Maternity Wing, Madison, Minnesota", which was published in the anthology Imagining Home: Writing From the Midwest.
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Eloisa James has three younger siblings, Bridget, Noah, and Micah.
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Eloisa James is a tenured professor lecturing on William Shakespeare at Fordham University in New York City.
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Eloisa James has served as director of graduate studies in the English Department, as well as head of Fordham's Creative Writing Program and, in 2018 and 2019, associate dean of Fordham College, Lincoln Center.
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Eloisa James has written 30 novels, 27 of which were New York Times bestsellers.
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Eloisa James's books have since been translated into 28 languages and 30 countries and have become hardcover bestsellers in the Netherlands and Spain.
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Eloisa James believed that marketing her first works as hardcovers was not a truly successful plan and hoped to have more success with the mass-market paperbacks.
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Eloisa James's heroines are usually surrounded by very good female friends or sisters.
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Eloisa James was invited to speak at the National Book Festival in 2012.