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Janice Graham

Janice Graham was raised in Kansas and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Her screenplay Until September, a romantic comedy situated in Paris, was made into a film starring Karen Allen and Thierry Lhermitte. Her first novel, Firebird, became a New York Times and international bestseller. After a series of contemporary women’s fiction, she turned to historical fiction—first with The Tailor’s Daughter, then with Romancing Miss Brontë, her critically acclaimed novel about Charlotte Brontë, written as Juliet Gael. She labored for many years over a very long novel about Mary Shelley, until she got fed up and stashed it away out of sight. Then, locked down in Paris during COVID and needing to laugh, she wrote Red Lily, a whimsical caper full of spies, dogs, and a lot of quirky characters who were much more fun to hang out with than the Shelleys. She has lived in Paris, Athens, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Kansas City and Florence, and has finally settled back in Paris.