Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger, a best-selling American historical romance author. Her novels have been translated into 29 foreign languages, and she has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List 19 times. In July 2018, it was announced that her Bridgerton series of books would be adapted for Netflix by Shonda Rhimes under the title Bridgertons.

About Julia Quinn in brief

Summary Julia QuinnJulia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger, a best-selling American historical romance author. Her novels have been translated into 29 foreign languages, and she has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List 19 times. In July 2018, it was announced that her Bridgerton series of books would be adapted for Netflix by Shonda Rhimes under the title Bridgertons. She won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for 2007 for On the Way to the Wedding and again for 2008 for The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever. She is now one of only 16 authors to be inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame. She considers herself a feminist and gives her heroines feminist qualities that are not necessarily true to the attitudes of the times her novels are set in.

The BridGerton family consists of eight siblings and their widowed mother, and are well respected and favored among British society. The series comprises eight books in which each of the siblings finds true love during the English period of Regency England. In 2001, Pottingers won USD,000 on The Weakest Link on her Facebook page for her favorite books on her list of favorite books. She also won an epilogue award for The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband in June 2017.