Tasha Alexander is an American author who writes historical 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.
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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' Gaudy Night.[1] 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.[2]
In 2007, Minotaur Books lured her away from William Morrow.[3] 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.[4] She has a reputation for being extremely careful about accuracy in her novels[5][6] and is meticulous about research.[7]
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.
Alexander was also tapped to write a novel to accompany the 2007 film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age.[8] The movie starred Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen. The book was published to coincide with the release of the film.