She is currently a tenured associate professor at Fordham University, New York City where she lecturers on William Shakespeare. She later joined Yale University where she studied Renaissance studies for her Ph. Mary Bly graduated from Harvard University and joined Oxford University where she got her masters in philosophy. The burning desire drove her to convince her dad to let her ready at least one romantic novel after reading a classic one. She for example made a puppet that alluded romance together with its lights to entertain her siblings.

He loved to substitute old classic novels to the traditional children’s fare that other children were exposed to.īly really had passion for romance even from a tender age. Eloisa James’ father loved reading novels to his children everyday hence exposing them to the love of classic books. Though they were relatively poor to the extent of not being able to own a TV, they had more than 5000 books on the other hand.

The Bly family really had passion for writing. Mary Bly is an elder daughter to her namely siblings: Mica, Bridget and Noah. He thereafter included it in a Pulitzer Prize which was a collection of winning poems. James Wright Mary’s grandfather wrote a very interesting poem specifically for her. The story was first published in The Imagining Home: Writing From The Midsest. Mary Bly inspired her mother to write a short story entitled the maternity wing, Madison Minnesota. Mary Bly was born in 1962 in Minnesota to carol Bly and Robert Bly.

Mary Bly is a daughter to a short story author carol Bly and Robert Bly who is a poet. She has written various bestselling romantic novels using this pen name. Eloisa James is a renowned pen name used to refer to Mary Bly who is an author and a tenured English literature professor at Fordham University.

A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James