About Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages. After someone suggested she try writing romance novels, Evanovich read several romances and discovered that she enjoyed the genre. In this time, Evanovich also became known for the humor that filled her novels. After attending South River High School, she became the first in her family to attend college when she enrolled at Douglass Residential College, part of Rutgers University, to study art.
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