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MEET E.L. JAMES: The Author Behind The Steamy '50 Shades Of Grey' Phenomenon
Women openly read it without shame on the subway and are going crazy casting the upcoming full-length movie, ourselves included.
class="p1">Though most know by now that the raunchy books follow naive college graduate Anastasia Steele and her billionaire boyfriend Christian Grey, not much is known about E.L. James, the creator of the popular series.
We dug around to find out more about the author of The New York Times best-seller that has every woman on the subway in a tizzy.
Find out everything you need to know about the author calling the novels her "midlife crisis."
E.L. James is just a pen name.
E.L. James' real name is Erika Leonard.
She grew up in Buckinghamshire.
There, she was privately educated and took up English literature and history at the University of Kent.
Currently, the author resides in West London with her family.
She's a mom.
James is a 49-year-old British mother of two teenage sons.
She has said in interviews her sons are "mortified" their mother wrote the explicit novels.
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