“I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.”

English novelist based in the United States

Jane Green is an English novelist based in the United States. By 2014, her books had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and they had been translated into 31 languages. She has also been described as one of the first writers associated with chick lit. Green is known for popular fiction that reached a wide international readership. Her work has been published in many languages, which reflects the broad appeal of her novels and the commercial success they achieved.