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Janet Evanovich
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<p>Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary <a href="/facts/Romance_novels/g7DK95lL">romance novels</a> under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring <a href="/facts/Stephanie_Plum/naqbAHhr">Stephanie Plum</a>, a former lingerie buyer from <a href="/facts/Trenton%2c_New_Jersey/05qtesQa">Trenton, New Jersey</a>, who becomes a <a href="/facts/Bounty_hunter/Gn59WoVb">bounty hunter</a> to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on <i>The New York Times</i>, <i><a href="/facts/USA_Today/mMa7JSPN">USA Today</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Wall_Street_Journal/9Pkf2cYK">Wall Street Journal</a></i> and <a href="/facts/Amazon.com/YzUTUVE8">Amazon</a> bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the <i>NY Times</i> Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on <i>USA Today</i> Best-Selling Books list. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages. </p>