Syrie James is the bestselling author of Dracula, My Love, the critically acclaimed The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Read of 2009, and The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, which became an international bestseller, and was named a Best First Novel of 2008 by the Library Journal.

Translation rights for Syrie's books have been sold in fifteen languages. An admitted Anglophile, she lives in Los Angeles and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America.