Syrie James is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte, selected by the Women's National Book Association as a Great Group Read of 2009, and The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, which became an international bestseller and was named a Best First Novel of 2008 by the Library Journal. Translation rights for Syrie's books have been sold in fourteen languages. An admitted Anglophile, she lives in Los Angeles and is a member of the Writer's Guild of America.