Eloisa James ~ New York Times Bestselling Author

Eloisa is changing the way people read books! Eloisa’s website has thousands of registered “Eloisa Readers,” who are addicted to the site’s extra features, particularly her “Extra Chapters.” After a book is published, readers on the Bulletin Board vote for the “chapter they wish Eloisa had written” – and then she writes it! Check in the Readers’ Pages for “Extra Chapters.”

Eloisa writes a column every month for Barnes & Noble’s Review website, an online publication that aims to bring serious readers smart and useful appraisals of current books. She has written about the socio-economic status of vampires and the miracles that save failing marriages in Christmas novels. Her column appears on the first Monday of every month. Catch all the archives.

Eloisa's recent book, An Affair Before Christmas, which debuted at #15 on the New York Times Bestseller List, was given a starred review by Publishers' Weekly -- a journal that doesn't often star romances. The reviewer found Affair "entertaining and exciting throughout [with] enough seduction, laughter and surprises...to satisfy even the most demanding fans of historical fiction."

Eloisa's father is Robert Bly, winner of the American Book Award for poetry. She's described herself as feeling as if she were Gilbert and Sullivan -- born into the family of Bach!

One of Eloisa's recent books is the tale of a young woman growing up with an eccentric, dramatic poet for a father! Desperate Duchesses is dedicated to Robert Bly. The public was fascinated – Desperate Duchesses hit #5 on the Publishers' Weekly Mass Market Bestseller List – as well as 15 on the New York Times!

People are fascinated by Eloisa's double life as a bestselling romance writer and a Shakespeare professor -- now the Today Show and More magazine are sending her down to Nashville to try her hand at writing country music as well! How many people do you know with three careers?

One of Eloisa's previous releases (Pleasure for Pleasure) features a plump heroine. Eloisa's work often breaks all the so-called "rules" for romance--what other romance writer has featured a hero who annulled his first marriage on the grounds of impotence?

Eloisa James is a professor of English literature, specializing in Shakespeare. She teaches at Fordham University in New York City, where she is head of the Creative Writing Program. Oxford University Press published her academic book in 2000.

Eloisa lives in New Jersey during the school year, and in Florence, Italy, during the summers. Her husband is a cavaliere, an Italian knight.

Twelve of Eloisa’s books are bestsellers, some on more than one list. Included are three New York Times bestsellers, eight New York Times extended bestsellers and eleven USAToday bestsellers. See the whole list.

Eloisa's books have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and Russian. She's a hard-cover bestseller in Holland and Spain.

Eloisa has approximately 3.5 million books in print in nine languages. Harper Collins reported the print run of Desperate Duchesses at 500K.

Eloisa James is the daughter of poet Robert Bly (winner of the American Book Award for Poetry) and short story author Carol Bly. Her father is a big fan.

Eloisa James's godfather was the poet James Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems. Among those poems – and one of Wright's most beloved – is a poem written for his goddaughter, Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James).

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