E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fan-girl. After twenty-five years of
working in television she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers
could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades
of Grey and its two sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed . In 2015 she
published the no. 1 bestseller Grey the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of
Christian Grey and in 2017 the chart-topping Darker the second part of the Fifty Shades
story from Christian¿s point of view. Her books have been published in forty-eight languages
and have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. E L James has been recognised as one of
Time magazine¿s ¿Most Influential People in the World¿ and Publishers Weekly ¿s ¿Person of the
Year¿. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive
weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012) and Fifty Shades of Grey was
selected as one of the 100 Great Reads as voted by readers in PBS¿s The Great American Read
(2018). Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. She
co-produced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies which made more than a billion
dollars at the box office. The third instalment Fifty Shades Freed won the People¿s Choice
Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her
husband the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard and their West Highland terriers in the
leafy suburbs of West London.
