Editing Julia Quinn (section)

== Career ==
While she was a student, Quinn began to write light-hearted [[Regency novel]]s.<ref name="grossman" /> A few weeks after her acceptance to medical school, she discovered that her first two novels, ''Splendid'' and ''Dancing At Midnight'', had been sold at auction, an unusual occurrence for a new romance author.<ref name="romanticsatheart">{{cite web| title =Julia Quinn Makes her own Destiny| publisher =Romantics at Heart| year =1996| url =http://www.likesbooks.com/quinn.html| access-date =2007-04-03| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070509094842/http://www.likesbooks.com/quinn.html| archive-date =2007-05-09}}</ref> By the time Quinn entered medical school, three of her books had been published. She left medical school after two months to become a full-time writer.<ref name="white" />

Quinn considers herself a feminist and gives her heroines feminist qualities that are not necessarily true to the most prevalent attitudes of the times her novels are set in.<ref name="grossman"/> Her novels are primarily character-driven and have been noted for their humor and sharp, witty dialogue.<ref name="romanticsatheart" /><ref name="white"/> Most of her books are dedicated to her husband, Paul Pottinger, often with references to amusing alternate titles for the work. 

In 2003, she was profiled in ''[[Time Magazine]]'', an accomplishment few romance novelists have achieved. In 2005, ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' gave ''To Sir Phillip, With Love'' a rare starred review, and later, the novel was named as one of the six best mass market original novels of the year.<ref name="about" />

Quinn won the [[Romance Writers of America]] RITA Award, in 2007, for ''On the Way to the Wedding'' and again, in 2008, for ''The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever''. At the time of her 2010 RITA award for ''What Happens in London'', she became RWA's youngest member. She is one of only 16 authors to be inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame.

Many of Quinn's novels have appeared on the [[New York Times Bestseller List|''New York Times'' Bestseller List]], with ''Mr. Cavendish, I Presume'' hitting number one in October 2008. In addition, both her Lady Whistledown anthologies appeared on the ''NY Times'' list, as did both of her novel-in-three-part collaborations with [[Connie Brockway]] and [[Eloisa James]] (''The Lady Most Likely'' and ''The Lady Most Willing''), and the ''Bridgertons: Happily Ever After'' collection of Bridgerton’s second epilogues.

Her [[Bridgerton (novel series)|''Bridgerton'' series]] of books has been adapted for [[Netflix]] by [[Shonda Rhimes]], under the title ''[[Bridgerton]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/shondaland-bridgerton-behind-the-scenes/ |title=Bridgerton |publisher=Shondaland.com |date= |access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q85748936|title=Bridgerton}}</ref>