Evanovich came from a working-class, Italian-American family; her father worked as a machinist and her mother was a homemaker. She has described herself as a daydreamer drawn to storytelling from an early age. She studied art at Rutgers University and, after graduating, took a job as a lingerie buyer for a department store, an experience she later drew on for the fashion-conscious humor in her books. She did not begin writing seriously until her early thirties, and it took years of rejection before her first novel was accepted for publication.
She broke into publishing as a romance novelist, writing category romances for Bantam under the pen name Steffie Hall; her first, Hero at Large, appeared in 1987. Over roughly the next decade she produced about a dozen romance titles, learning the discipline of genre fiction and building an early readership.
Her breakthrough came with One for the Money (1994), which introduced Stephanie Plum, a wisecracking and frequently bumbling bounty hunter working out of Trenton, New Jersey. The book won the Dilys and Barry awards for best first mystery, and the series became a publishing phenomenon. Each new installment - Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, and dozens more - frequently landed on the New York Times bestseller list, many at No. 1. The novels mix crime plots with broad comedy and a large cast of eccentric characters, including the enigmatic Ranger and the police detective Joe Morelli.
Beyond Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has written the Fox and O'Hare thrillers with Lee Goldberg, the Knight and Moon series, and the Alexandra Barnaby novels (Metro Girl and Motor Mouth), and she has collaborated with her daughter Alex on graphic novels. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Florida.
Janet Evanovich was born on April 22, 1943 in South River, New Jersey, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), April 22, 1943 corresponds to the Queen of Clubs, making the Queen of Clubs her Birth Card.
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