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Lauren Willig

American Author

Born: Mar 28, 1977

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another. Lauren Willig

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach. Lauren Willig

Waiting Queen Reading Admiration Since Felt Jean Deep Ever

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. Lauren Willig

Heart Mind Girl Down Drama London Being Midst Succession Set

I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus. Lauren Willig

There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance. Lauren Willig

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person. Lauren Willig

Book Predict Complain Individual Had Mainstream Reader Readers Very Person Expectations Same Going Romance Depends Story Really Hard

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. Lauren Willig

Life Me People Comedy Humor Some People Own Others Way Say Some My Own Towards Tragedy View Inclination They Say

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. Lauren Willig

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching. Lauren Willig

Best Introduction Course Sure Teaching Necessarily Core

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random. Lauren Willig

Random Stay Someplace Academia End Up Going Might

'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. Lauren Willig

Time Writing Procrastination Three Beginning Months Purple Between Over Wrote August July End Times Then Whole Thing

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