Lauren Willig


Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. She is best known for her "Pink Carnation" series, which follows a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they fight for Britain and fall in love.

Biography

A native of New York City, Willig discovered historical fiction when she was only six years old, while she was attempting to find books about her idol, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
After graduating from the Chapin School, Willig attended Yale University, where she majored in Renaissance Studies and Political Science, and was Chairman of the Tory Party of the Yale Political Union. She then studied graduate level early modern European history at Harvard University before entering and graduating from Harvard Law School. Willig briefly worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a law firm in New York, while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of books, until she gave up law in order to focus full-time on the series.
Willig's books have been named a Romantic Times Top Pick! and she has been nominated for a Quill Award in 2006. She has won the RITA Award for Best Regency Historical Romance, the RT Reviewers Choice Award for Historical Fiction, the Booksellers Best Award for Long Historical Romance, and the Golden Leaf Award.
In Spring of 2010, Willig taught Reading the Historical Romance at her alma mater, Yale University, along with fellow alumna and romance novelist Andrea DaRif,. The course received a great deal of attention for helping to bring the romance novel academic notice.
Since winding up the Pink Carnation series, Willig has written five critically acclaimed stand alone works of historical fiction as well as co-authoring three novels with fellow historical fiction authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams.

Works

The Pink Carnation series

  1. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
  2. The Masque of the Black Tulip
  3. The Deception of the Emerald Ring
  4. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
  5. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
  6. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
  7. The Mischief of the Mistletoe
  8. The Orchid Affair
  9. The Garden Intrigue
  10. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria
  11. The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla
  12. The Lure of the Moonflower

    Historical fiction