Tasha Alexander
| Tasha Alexander | |
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| Born |
1 December 1969 South Bend, Indiana |
| Pen name | Tasha Alexander |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Period | 2005-Present |
| Spouse | Andrew Grant |
| Children | Alexander |
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Tasha Alexander (born 1969) is an American author who writes New York Times bestsellinghistorical mystery fiction.
She credits her parents, both philosophy professors, for encouraging her to read and write. She received a B.A. from Notre Dame in English with a concentration in Medieval Studies.
In 2002, while living in New Haven, Connecticut, she started work on her first novel, after being inspired by a passage in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night. Carolyn Marino at William Morrow acquired the book, And Only to Deceive, which was published in 2005 as the first installment of the Lady Emily series. Following a move to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a local Starbucks, she eventually relocated to Chicago, where she married British novelist Andrew Grant (brother of bestselling author Lee Child) in 2010.
In 2007, Minotaur Books lured her away from William Morrow. She is now edited by Charles Spicer and is the imprint's top writer of historical mysteries. Alexander's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has been nominated for the Bruce Alexander Award and the RT Reviewers Choice Award. She has a reputation for being extremely careful about accuracy in her novels and is meticulous about research.
The Lady Emily series is set in the 1890s in cities across Europe and follows the adventures of a young, Victorian widow about to come out of mourning after the death of her husband.
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