She first got into Regency romance in 2012 after reading about the dashing heroes and spirited and independent heroines while studying in London. She uses the many places that she has traveled to as inspiration for the settings of her novel, though Regency England tends to be the default setting given that she went to college in London. She has been writing ever since.Ī humanities professor at Chattanooga, Tennessee by day and a historical romance writer by night, Anna Harrington is a widely traveled author that has been to nearly every continent in the world. By her early teenage years, she had been involved in the writing of local drama club plays, had won contests, and published several stories in the local dailies. She began writing furiously and filled dozens of spiral notebooks with short stories. From that time, she was hooked and knew she had a talent for writing, and an appetite for praise. Her teacher loved it so much that she asked her to read it to the class and pinned it to the board for the upcoming teacher-parent conference.

Somehow, she found herself writing about the life and times of President Jimmy Carter’s hammer in the first person point of view. The teacher required that every learner write a short story about an everyday object or tool. She first got interested in writing when she was in the third grade. Living in England, she spent most of her time getting lost in the English countryside, reading Jane Austen, studying Romantic poets, and dreaming of the dashing heroes of the Regency period. She fell in love with Regency and all things historical romance when she lived in England for a time. In addition to earning her degree in the United States, she studied Spanish in Ecuador, Mexican History in Guadalajara, and theater in London.

Her first novel was the highly popular “Dukes are Forever” that was the debut title of the Secret Life of Scoundrels series of novels. Anna Harrington is an American author best known for writing historical romances set in the Regency period.

A Problem Princess by Anna Harrington