Lauren Willig
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Lauren Willig
Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 March 1977
CountryUnited States of America
degree emerged grad grand historical romances school series spies
I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
absurd anne grew jane loving
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'
knitting-needles manners application
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
july months procrastination time wrote
'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.