21 Facts About Sherry Thomas

Sherry M Thomas was born on 1975 and is an American novelist of young adult fantasy, historical romance, and contemporary romance.

Sherry Thomas has won multiple awards including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for Not Quite a Husband in 2010 and His at Night in 2011.

Sherry Thomas published her first novel in 2008, English-set Victorian romances, and in 2013, she branched into young adult fantasy.

Sherry Thomas recalls that her grandmother did the crossword puzzles in China's official English-language newspaper.

In 1984, Sherry Thomas's mother went to the United States to study, financed by Sherry Thomas's paternal great aunt.

Sherry Thomas remained in China until her grandmother died in 1988, and she emigrated to the United States at the age of thirteen.

Sherry Thomas's mother was in graduate school at Louisiana State University.

Sherry Thomas improved her English by reading science fiction and romance novels, including those by Rosemary Rogers.

Sherry Thomas reportedly read Rogers' novel Sweet Savage Love using a Chinese-English dictionary.

Sherry Thomas found English-language romance books interesting due to their departure from Chinese cultural understandings of courtship.

Sherry Thomas received her BS in economics from Louisiana State University and earned her master's degree in accounting at University of Texas at Austin.

Sherry Thomas stated that when she sold her first novel to Bantam in the summer of 2006, she had written five failed manuscripts in seven years.

Sherry Thomas followed with the release of Delicious that summer.

The New York Times said "The Chinese-born Sherry Thomas is known for a lush style that demonstrates her love of her second language, and this novel edges into historical fiction with its transporting prose even as it delivers on heat and emotion and a well-earned happily ever after".

Sherry Thomas once discussed the challenges of writing in an historical setting other than Regency England:.

Sherry Thomas's writing is often described as lyrical, lush, musical, graceful, rich, evocative, with unique metaphors and turns of phrase.

Sherry Thomas's elegant turn of phrase lifts the storytelling to new heights.

Sherry Thomas writes heroines who are deeply flawed as well as being unconventional, and will break some of romance's rules.

Yet this is not reinvention; rather, Sherry Thomas is writing old skool romances with new skool sensibilities in a marriage of no amount of convenience but one guaranteed to bring hours and hours of reading delight.

Sherry Thomas has received starred reviews for several titles from Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal and as of 2015, has finaled four times in RITA Award contest.

Sherry Thomas's books are often cited by other romance authors as their top favorites.