Julia Quinn: 10 things you need to know about the writer behind ‘The Bridgertons’ phenomenon

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He was born in 1970 in a Jewish family., under the name Julie Cotler. She grew up in New England with her three sisters, but spent a lot of time in California after her parents divorced she.

early writer

His father scolded him as a child for some delicious literary delights such as the ‘Sweet Valley Twins’. He said that he studied those books to write such a book. He finished two parts of his first novel, which he submitted to a publishing house when he was only 15, at the age of 12. They rejected it..

I was going to the doctor

He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in Art History and entered Medicine at Yale.. At the time, it was rumored that the two publishers were fighting for their first novels, ‘Espléndida Passion’ and ‘A Midnight Dance’, which encouraged him to dedicate himself to writing.

“The New Jane Austen”

He wrote dozens soap operas romantic but world success came thanks to ‘Los Bridgerton, eight volumes set in the Regency period at the beginning of the 19th century. The first book in the saga to be christened “The New Jane Austen” was “The Duke and Me” in 2000, about Daphne’s romance, which was the focus of the first season of the Neftlix series. That same year, he released ‘El Viscount que me amó’, which focused on the protagonist of the final episodes, his eldest son Anthony, that promised to sweep this Sant Jordi.

best sellers

Loess your book Translated into 41 languages ​​by Julia Quinn and has been named ‘The New York Times’ ‘best seller’ 19 times in a row. In the US alone, it has sold over 20 million copies in print. As of March 2021, all eight ‘The Bridgertons’ novels were also on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list, a record for an adult fiction writer.

Commissioned by Shonda Rhimes

Books about ‘Bridges’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Who is Anna?’ filmmaker Shonda Rhimes. and ‘Scandal’. He swallowed them. He decided to buy the television rights to those “crazy romance novels” full of sexy characters.

Feminist and romantic love addict

Julia Quinn argues that there is nothing in her romantic novels that feminists can condemn: she sees herself as a feminist. Its protagonists are atypical within the genre, and prominent males are not portrayed as sexual predators. She is credited by ‘Time’ magazine with reinventing the romance novel for the post-feminist generation.

In favor of the series being multiethnic

In the ‘Bridgertons’ books the characters are assumed to be white, but Julia Quinn celebrates the multiethnic component of the Netflix series, regardless of historical accuracy. As a Jew, he stated that he was aware of the power of people of other races and religions to identify with heroes.

lucky in love

She has two children with Doctor Paul Pottinger and she brags about the romance of her husband, who gives her a Tiffany necklace containing meltwater from the snow she hid after climbing Kilimanjaro for her silver wedding anniversary.

family tragedy

In June 2021, his father and sister died in an accident. car crash in Utah. “A ‘catering’ company didn’t properly secure their cargo and the tarps fell on the road, a truck driver didn’t care to drive with a blood alcohol level exceeding three times the legal limit,” he wrote on his Instagram account. With his sister, Violet Charles, an illustrator, he was creating a comic book dedicated to his father. Steve Cotler Renowned author of children’s books and the Cheesie Mac series. After losing, he wrote, “It will never be a surprise anymore, but I like to think he suspected we would be. He knew us very well.”

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