Sarah MacLean
Sarah MacLean is the USA Today, Washington Post, and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels based on the romance and young adult genres. She was born on December 17, 1978 in Lincoln, Rhode Island, United States. Sarah saw a huge success right from the first adult romance novel of her career, which went on to debut on the bestseller list of the New York Times. It remained on the top list for a period of 4 weeks. Apart from writing novels, Sarah also monthly review columns about romance novels in The Washington Post. In her successful career as an author, Sarah has won the RITA Award by the Romance Writers of America on two occasions in the category of the Best Historical Romance in the years 2013 and 2014. Having been born to an English mother and an Italian father, Sarah grew up in a blended culture. She has reported on her website that her mother used to work for the MI6 as a spy. Her older sister used to read books based on the romance genre due to which she also developed an interest in it and began reading and writing romance stories in her early days. Since her growing years as a teenager, Sarah had dreamed of becoming a novelist of romance novels. In the year 2000, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in the subject of American Studies. During her days at the Smith College, she used to indulge in reading hundreds of romance books along with her friends.