In 2012, EL James won two National Book awards for Fifty Shades of Grey, Popular Fiction Book of the Year, and also the Book of the Year awards. During this time, she also sold the film rights to the Fifty Shades trilogy for $5 million, with the first film being released in 2015, for which EL James has a production credit, but was not involved in the writing of the screenplay. All three books in the trilogy have gone on to sell millions upon millions, which made her the highest-earning author in 2013, according to Forbes. She then followed this up with the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, and finally 50 Shades Freed. In August 2009, EL James began work on the first 50 Shades of Grey book, which was released to great commercial success in 2011.

When James found there was a market for such works of fan fiction, she released her Twilight books for the Kindle, and then turned her attention to writing her own series of books. She then decided to write a fan fiction piece which was essentially a sequel to the final book in the Twilight series.

James had picked up the series after watching the first Twilight film and quickly devoured the series. In fact, her real writing break, so to speak, came about at the start of 2009 thanks in no small part to the Twilight series of books. Instead, James was a late bloomer into the world of fiction. Unlike many of her peers, EL James’ path to literary success was no down to years of slaving away as a journalist or doing another job to supplement their aspiring writing ambitions. James went to an all-girls school in Buckinghamshire, before going on to study History at the University of Kent. She has written under the pen name Snowqueen’s Icedragon.ĮL James, or Erika Mitchell, was born in London in March 1963 to a Chilean mother and a Scottish father, however she was raised in the south of England. James has written the “Fifty Shades” trilogy and “Grey”.

They met while she was a studio manager’s assistant and now have two sons together.Į. Her husband is an author too and has written for television. Her husband, Niall Leonard, helped her edit the novels. By August of 2013, her work put her at the top of Forbes’ list of the highest earning authors. She had only written the books as a way to entertain herself and some of her friends online. When she sat down to write the books, she had never written any fiction before. She then wrote a story called “Master of the Universe” that was “Twilight” fan fiction and would serve as the basis for the “ Fifty Shades” novels. One night, she saw the movie “ Twilight” and then read the books many times over a period of a couple of days. She has two kids and used to be a television executive. Mitchell is the daughter of a Chilean mother and a Scottish father that worked as a cameraman for BBC. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Įrika Mitchell (who is better known by her pen name, E. Description /Buy link takes you to Amazon.

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