Anna Harrington

Anna Harrington is an American author best known for writing historical romances set in the Regency period. Her first novel was the highly popular “Dukes are Forever” that was the debut title of the Secret Life of Scoundrels series of novels. In addition to earning her degree in the United States, she studied Spanish in Ecuador, Mexican History in Guadalajara, and theater in London. She fell in love with Regency and all things historical romance when she lived in England for a time. Living in England, she spent most of her time getting lost in the English countryside, reading Jane Austen, studying Romantic poets, and dreaming of the dashing heroes of the Regency period. She first got interested in writing when she was in the third grade. The teacher required that every learner write a short story about an everyday object or tool. Somehow, she found herself writing about the life and times of President Jimmy Carter’s hammer in the first person point of view. Her teacher loved it so much that she asked her to read it to the class and pinned it to the board for the upcoming teacher-parent conference. From that time, she was hooked and knew she had a talent for writing, and an appetite for praise. She began writing furiously and filled dozens of spiral notebooks with short stories. By her early teenage years, she had been involved in the writing of local drama club plays, had won contests, and published several stories in the local dailies. She has been writing ever since.