Emily F. Hayes

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Emily Fiano Hayes, better known as E.F. Hayes, is a popular American Romance novelist. Although known for her melodramatic style and formulaic plots, Hayes continues to remain on the best-sellers list for fiction. This has led to a movement among literary critics, who fail to see the artistic value in her tales of cadish lords seducing hapless ladies, to boycott reviewing her creations.^{[citation needed]} However, this has not yet affected Hayes's books, which continue to sell by the thousands.

Two of her novels, Lord of the Highlands and Trousers of Love were adapted for film. Lord of the Highlands the miniseries premiered on Lifetime in 1992. "Is That a Quill in Your Pocket" renamed "Shakespeare in Love" went on to become a highly successful movie, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997.

Hayes also published a nonfiction work about the life and death of Winston Churchill. The biography was universally panned by the literary world due to Hayes's inability to focus of the facts of Churchill's life and suppress her more indulgent style.^{[citation needed]} The book reduces Churchill to a secondary character in his own biography while the bulk of the writing concerns a love affair between his shy but good-hearted speechwriter and his saucy and outspoken cleaning girl.