Jennifer Crusie was born on 1949 and is a pseudonym for Jennifer Smith, an author of contemporary romance novels.
25 Facts About Jennifer Crusie
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Jennifer Crusie has written more than twenty novels, which have been published in 20 countries.
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Jennifer Crusie chose to honor her maternal grandmother by writing under her grandmother's maiden name, Crusie.
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Jennifer Crusie graduated from Wapakoneta High School, and then earned a bachelor's degree in Art Education from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Jennifer Crusie has a Master's degree from Wright State University in Professional Writing and Women's Literature, her master's thesis, "A Spirit More Capable Of Looking Up To Him," was on the role of women in mystery fiction from 1840 to 1920.
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Jennifer Crusie's second master's degree is an MFA in Fiction from Ohio State University.
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Jennifer Crusie has completed all the coursework towards a Ph.
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Jennifer Crusie married in 1971, and followed her Air Force husband to Wichita Falls, Texas.
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Jennifer Crusie was transferred to Dayton, Ohio and they have since divorced.
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Jennifer Crusie's first career was a teacher, beginning with pre-school, then elementary and junior high art, high school English, and undergraduate college English courses, including 15 years in the Beavercreek, Ohio public school system.
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Jennifer Crusie's teaching subjects included art, literature, mythology, the Bible in literature, college composition, creative writing, and British and American literature, as well as time spent directing the sets and costumes crews for the high school's drama department.
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Jennifer Crusie has taught at Antioch University, Wright State University, Ohio State, and McDaniel College, where she helped design the curriculum for the graduate level Romance Writing Program.
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The romance novels were so compelling that Jennifer Crusie changed her dissertation to focus on romantic fiction and decided to try her hand at writing a romance novel.
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Jennifer Crusie quit her job in the summer of 1991 to devote herself full-time to writing.
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Jennifer Crusie completed her first manuscript, called Keeping Kate, in 1991, but was unable to sell it.
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Jennifer Crusie entered a Silhouette-sponsored novella contest in the winter of 1991 and won one of twelve places with a novel called Sizzle.
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Shortly after that, Harlequin bought Keeping Kate and changed the name to Manhunting, which was Jennifer Crusie's first published novel, appearing in February 1993.
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In 1995, Jennifer Crusie signed with St Martin's Press, and began writing single title novels, beginning with Tell Me Lies.
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Jennifer Crusie's heroines are usually off-beat and the heroes are clever and charming.
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Jennifer Crusie has won the Romance Writers of America Rita award twice, once for category fiction with Getting Rid of Bradley and once for single title romance for Bet Me.
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In September 2004, Jennifer Crusie met adventure novelist Bob Mayer at the Maui Writers Conference.
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Crusie's longtime editor, Jennifer Enderlin, edited this book, and had to ask Crusie who had written each section as she couldn't tell them apart.
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Jennifer Crusie has collaborated with Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart on The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes, and on Dogs and Goddesses with Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich.
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In 2010 Jennifer Crusie published her first solo in six years, Maybe This Time.
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Jennifer Crusie continues her interest in the academic side of fiction.