Megan Crane
| Megan Crane | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Vassar College University of York |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Jeff Johnson |
Megan Crane (born c. 1973) is an American novelist.
She was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Goheen, the 16th president of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India and is also the great great granddaughter of Sir James Caruthers Rhea Ewing (1854-1925), distinguished Presbyterian missionary educator in what is now Pakistan. Crane graduated from Vassar College, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of York in York, England. She is married to Jeff Johnson, the American comic book artist, animator, and one of the founders of the original Drink and Draw Social Club.
Crane is the author of more than sixty novels, novellas, essays, and short stories.
She has also written a number of work-for-hire young adult novels under different names, but does not reveal their titles. The first of these hit the New York Times Bestseller list in 2005.
Crane also writes romance novels for Harlequin Presents, a category romance line of Harlequin, under the pseudonym "Caitlin Crews".
Her debut, Pure Princess, Bartered Bride, was published in February 2010, debuting on the USA Today Bestseller List at #112.
Subsequent novels for Presents include:
Her novella "The Reluctant Queen" appears in an anthology called A Royal Engagement (April 2011 in the UK as part of an anthology called A Royal Wedding; November 2011 in North America). She has also written a number of short stories for Presents, including "His Christmas Captive" (2011), "His Wife by Christmas" (2013), and "Strangers in the Sauna" (2014).
In addition to writing books, Crane has taught creative writing courses online at mediabistro and at the prestigious UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She has also contributed essays to It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties, edited by Emily Franklin, Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O'Connell, Writing the Bestseller: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Jane Porter and Rebecca Lyles, and Writing the Bestseller II: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Lindsey Stover, and the upcoming A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, edited by Eleanor Brown.
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