Biography
The American author behind the hit Bridgerton series and Netflix adaptation, Julia Quinn is a romance novelist and one of only sixteen authors to be inducted in the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.
Born in 1970, Julia Cotler appreciated literature from an early age. Aged 12, after being issued a challenge by her father, she wrote her first romance novel and submitted it for publication three years later (it was rejected).
Julia graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Art History, and thought about pursuing a career in medicine, primarily because she didn’t know what else to do. While studying science in preparation for this, she amused herself by writing light-hearted Regency novels; just weeks after being accepted to medical school, she discovered that two of her novels had been sold at auction, almost unheard of for romance novels.
Realising she preferred writing to medicine, Julia decided to write full-time. She quickly became a critically acclaimed author, winning awards and regularly hitting the top spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. She has written several series, including the Splendid Trilogy and Agents of the Crown, but it was the Bridgerton series, the first of which was published in 2000, that truly captured people’s hearts.
Writing fierce, feminist characters with opinions not common in the time they’re set, Julia Quinn offers a fresh, modern take on the Regency romance novel. Full of witty dialogue and sharp humour, her novels offer a compelling mix of old-fashioned romance and modern attitudes that create a world that is both comfortingly familiar and thrillingly unpredictable.
