New York Times bestselling author Eloisa
James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A
reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found
herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People
Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her
novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and
Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.
After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford
University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor,
publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an
associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham
University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to
the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York
Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from
women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance
Writers' Report.