S.J. Rozan

S.J. Rozan is one of the award winning author of thrillers and detective fiction novels, hailing from America. She is based in the New York City and is particularly famous for writing the Lydia China and Bill Smith novel series. Author Rozan also co-authors a series of paranormal thriller novels with author Carlos Dews under the pseudonym of Sam Cabot. Author Rozan was born as Shira Judith Rozan in the year 1950 in Bronx, New York. She has a brother and a couple of sisters, with whom she grew up in the Bronx. Right from her childhood days, Rozan has a passion for playing basketball. She completed her graduation from the Oberlin College and earned her bachelor’s degree. Later, Rozan joined the New York State University at Buffalo and obtained her master’s degree in the subject of architecture. Author Rozan considers herself as a New Yorker for life and resides in Lower Manhattan. After her graduation, Rozan started her career in the field of architecture. But before that, she worked for a number of odd jobs such as working in jewelry sales, as a painter, janitor, in bread baking, book sales, advertising copywriting, as well as an instructor of self defense. After starting as an architect, Rozan went on to become the project manager for a firm in New York. She used to work mostly on the projects that were socially useful. Rozan said that at one point, her life was exactly the way she wanted it to be, but it was not making her happy. This enabled her to try her hand at the idea of writing crime novels. She was already excited by this idea for a very long time as was fond of reading crime fiction books, but could not get time to write a book of her own because of her busy schedules. Most of the books written by author Rozan take place in New York City, or at least start from there. Her private investigator series features the lead characters as Bill Smith and Lydia Chin. The books of the series feature changing points of view between these two characters. Related to the characters, author Rozan as said that Lydia Chin is just like her when she was of her age. She is filled with a lot of energy, optimism, and believes that her efforts can help save the world. On the other hand, Bill Smith is like what Rozan is right now. He has gone through a lot of bad stuff in his life which have taught him a great deal of lessons about life and living.