Janet Evanovich

Novelist

Birthday April 22, 1943

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace South River, NJ

Age 81 years old

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About

A New York Times bestselling author, she is best known for One for the Money, Hot Six, Notorious Nineteen, and other books in the popular Stephanie Plum mystery series. Also a romance novelist, she penned Manhunt, Love Overboard, and the Elsie Hawkins series.

Before Fame

She studied art at Douglass College of Rutgers University. She published her first romance novel, Hero at Large, in 1987.

Trivia

She published Metro Girl, the first novel in her Barnaby trilogy, in 2004.

Family Life

She grew up in South River, New Jersey. She and her Serbian-American husband, Pete, had two children: Peter and Alexandra.

Associated With

She admired the work of Jane Austen.