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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.
Eloisa...on her double life: When I rip off my power suit, whether it's academic or romantic, underneath is the rather tired, chocolate-stained sweatshirt of a mom. Just as I use Shakespeare in my romances, I almost always employ my experiences as a mother. When I wrote about a miscarriage in Midnight Pleasures, I used my own fears of premature birth; when the little girl in Fool For Love threw up and threw up, I described my own daughter, who had that unsavory habit for well over her first year of life. So I'm a writer, a professor, a mother - and a wife. My husband Alessandro is Italian, born in Florence. We spend the lazy summer months with his mother and sister in Italy. It always strikes me as a huge irony that as a romance writer I find myself married to a knight, a cavaliere, as you say in Italian. One more thing...I'm a friend. I have girlfriends who are writers and girlfriends who are Shakespeare professors. And I have girlfriends who are romance readers. In fact, we have something of a community going on my website. Please stop by and join the conversation on my readers' pages.
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Do you live around Chicago? Eloisa will be there on July 10-11. She’ll do an event at a public library (see below). And if you happen to be a librarian, Eloisa will be speaking at the annual American Library Association conference in Chicago on the 11th. Friday, July 10
Do you live around Washington, D.C.? Eloisa will be there in July! On Wednesday the 15th at 4 o’clock, she’ll be participating in a huge booksigning event (including Janet Evanovich and Nora Roberts). Watch here for more information – especially about a party that Eloisa will be holding for her readers! You can sign up on the Bulletin Board under “Meet Eloisa.” And if you’re a romance writer, Eloisa is giving the RWA keynote luncheon speech on Friday, July 17th! We’ll post all the news when we have it. Wednesday, July 15
Eloisa's Online Destinations:
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» Here is a link to the page at the World Talk Radio website from which anyone can listen to yesterday's interviews: with Eloisa, Sari Robins, Victoria Alexander, Cathy Maxwell, and Teresa Medeiros. » National Public Radio's All Things Considered Weekend Edition ran a lovely interview with Eloisa: listen to it yourself! » Eloisa Archived. Hear past radio spots. Eloisa on NPR, from The Next Big Thing, entitled: From Bards to Bodices. Also, for direct download: the Fordham radio interview.
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