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Janet Evanovich
b. 1943·American
Janet Evanovich is an American novelist born on April 22, 1943, who began her career writing romance fiction before finding mainstream success with crime comedy. She is best known for creating the Stephanie Plum series, featuring a wisecracking New Jersey bounty hunter, which has produced over twenty entries with seventeen consecutive debuts at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. With more than 200 million books in print across 40 languages, Evanovich ranks among the most commercially successful American fiction authors of the past three decades.
