J. T. Ellison

J. T. Ellison is a New York Times bestselling American author of several thriller and crime novels. She was born in Florida outside Orlando. She moved with her parents to Colorado at the age of two and was raised there until she was fourteen. She grew up reading books from her parents’ shelves as she began to grew her interest in poetry, romance and science fiction. She was greatly influenced by the authors John Grisham, Patrica Cornwell and James Patterson. At the age of fourteen, she had to move with her parents to Washington, D.C.where she went to Langley High School, Virginia. She then went to Randolph-Macon Woman’s College from where she finished her graduation with a double major in English Creative Writing and Politics and a minor in Economics. Ellison was planning to go for a Master’s in Fine Arts, but her thesis advisor wouldn’t give her a recommendation, declaring that she wasn’t good enough to be a writer to ever get published.