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Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is an American writer, specializing in 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 six years old. She had become fascinated by Eleanor of Aquitaine.

After graduating from the private Chapin School, Willig attended Yale University. There she majored in Renaissance Studies and Political Science, and was Chairman of the Tory Party of the Yale Political Union. She studied graduate-level early modern European history at Harvard University. She studied at and graduated from Harvard Law School.

Willig briefly worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a law firm in New York. During this period, she also was writing her "Pink Carnation" series of books. She gave up law practice in order to focus full-time on the series.

Willig's books have been named a Romantic Times Top Pick. She was nominated in 2006 for a Quill Award. In addition by October 2011, she had 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, (penname: Cara Elliott). The course received attention for helping to bring academic notice to the popular genre of romance novels.

Following her series, Willig has written eight stand-alone historical novels. She also co-authored five novels with fellow historical fiction authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams.

Works

The Pink Carnation series

  1. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (February 2005)
  2. The Masque of the Black Tulip (December 29, 2005)
  3. The Deception of the Emerald Ring (November 16, 2006)
  4. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (January 31, 2008)
  5. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (January 22, 2009)
  6. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (January 12, 2010)
  7. The Mischief of the Mistletoe (October 28, 2010)
  8. The Orchid Affair (January 20, 2011)
  9. The Garden Intrigue (February 16, 2012)
  10. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (August 6, 2013)
  11. The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla (August 5, 2014)
  12. The Lure of the Moonflower (August 4, 2015)

Historical fiction

  • The Ashford Affair (April 9, 2013)
  • That Summer (June 3, 2014)
  • The Other Daughter (July 21, 2015)
  • The Forgotten Room (with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) (January 19, 2016)
  • The English Wife (January 9, 2018)
  • The Glass Ocean (with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) (September 4, 2018)
  • The Summer Country (June 4, 2019)
  • All the Ways We Said Goodbye (with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) (January 14, 2020)
  • Band of Sisters (March 2, 2021)
  • The Lost Summers of Newport (with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) (May 17, 2022)
  • Two Wars and a Wedding (March 21, 2023)
  • The Author's Guide to Murder (with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) (November 5, 2024)
  • The Girl from Greenwich Street (March 4, 2025)

Other works

  • Two L (August 28, 2011)
  • "A Night at Northanger" in Jane Austen Made Me Do It (October 2011)
  • "The Record Set Right" in A Fall of Poppies (March 22, 2016)
  • "Until We Meet Again" in A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light (July 4, 2017)

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