A native of New York City, Lauren Willig has been writing romances ever since she got her hands on her first romance novel at the age of six. Three years later, she sent her first novel off to a publishing house—all three hundred hand-written pages. They sent it back. Undaunted, Lauren has continued to generate large piles of paper and walk in front of taxis while thinking about plot ideas.

After thirteen years at an all girls school (explains the romance novels, doesn’t it?), Lauren set off for Yale and co-education, where she read lots of Shakespeare, wrote sonnet sequences when she was supposed to be doing her science requirement, and lived in a Gothic fortress complete with leaded windows and gargoyles. After college, she decided she really hadn’t had enough school yet, and headed off to that crimson place in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a degree in English history. Like her modern heroine, she spent a year doing dissertation research in London, tramping back and forth between the British Library and the Public Records Office, reading lots of British chick lit, and eating far too many Sainsbury’s frozen dinners.

After three years of taking useful and practical classes like “Law in Ancient Athens” and “The Globalization of the Modern Legal Consciousness”, Lauren received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. For a year and a half, she practiced as a litigation associate at a large New York law firm.  But having attained the lofty heights of second year associate, she decided that book deadlines and doc review didn't mix and departed the law for a new adventure in full time writerdom.

Tweed and scholarly tomes-- grad school was clearly inevitable.

Pink Pandemonium! Me, Mom, and Brooke at my very first book signing. All the folks from Dutton wore pink, too-- and my agent sported a pink tie. To be fair, it's probably hard to find a pink suit....

»January 2006, Lauren gets her own spot on the B&N Meet the Writers page—right next to Laura Ingalls Wilder!

»March 2005, the Associated Press picks up on A Sultry Dose of Romance—From Harvard

»March 2005, the Harvard Crimson reports: Grad Student Grabs Readers With Bodice-Ripper

»November 2004, Q&A with the Library Journal