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Fast Facts

Julia Quinn is a graduate of Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges and briefly attended Yale School of Medicine before deciding to pursue a full-time writing career.
Her most popular series, The Bridgertons, is currently being developed by Shondaland as a Netflix series. Scandal veteran Chris Van Dusen will adapt and showrun.
In 2001 she was a contestant on the game show The Weakest Link and won $79,000.
In 2013 she appeared in a bona fide MTV music video.
She sold her first book, Splendid, at the age of 24 and has been working with the same editor and publishing house for her entire career.
She is an ardent supporter of military families and gives away 100 copies of her novels to service members, veterans, and military spouses each Veterans Day.

Career Highlights

Julia Quinn is the author of seventeen consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including Mr. Cavendish, I Presume, which reached #1 on the mass market paperback fiction list.
She is one of only sixteen authors to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.
In the United States alone, there are over 10 million copies of her books in print.
Her Facebook fans number over 173,000 and are growing fast. The largest segment of her Facebook fans come from the United States (39%), followed by Brazil, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Turkey.
Her books have been translated into 29 languages.
In 2016 she taught the inaugural romance workshop at the Yale Summer Writers Conference.

Selected Press

Here are a few of the many interviews JQ has given throughout her career. Click over for an expanded list →

DEADLINE | HOLLYWOOD

Julie Andrews To Voice-over Lady Whistledown In Shondaland’s Bridgerton Series For Netflix

Jun 19, 2019

Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews is the first actor officially cast in Shondaland’s Untitled Bridgerton Project, an hourlong period series for Netflix based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling series of novels. Andrews will voice the pivotal character of Lady Whistledown in eight-episode series, slated to premiere in 2020.

NPR

This Valentine’s Day, Make A Date With A Book

Feb 13, 2019

“The number of romance novels I have read is vast; the number I have reread again and again is about five. One of those is Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.”

Entertainment Weekly

How Hollywood is rekindling the rom-com — with the help of romance novels

Aug 16, 2018

“All you need is love — a precept romance novels live by with the notion of the HEA (happily-ever-after) embedded in their DNA. But it’s a message Hollywood seemed to forget over the past decade, with mourners tolling the bell for the death of the rom-com.”

Deadline | Hollywood

Shondaland Unveils Netflix Series Slate

Jul 20, 2018

“From the world of Regency England all the way to present day Manhattan, we at Shondaland have a wonderful opportunity to explore new worlds and tell these stories in many different ways,” said Shondaland’s Betsy Beers.

The New York Times

Shonda Rhimes Describes Her Grand Netflix Ambitions

Jul 20, 2018

In this in-depth interview with Shonda Rhimes, the star producer reveals the eight shows she plans to make for Netflix, one of which is: “An adaptation of a group of lush romance novels set in Regency England — the Bridgerton Series, by Julia Quinn — that Scandal veteran Chris Van Dusen will turn into a dramatic series.”