Sharon Sobel

A writer for most of her life, Sharon Sobel is the author of sixteen published novels, short stories, and many essays. She earned a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University and is currently a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and at Connecticut State College. She was Chapter Liaison and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Romance Writers of America, a founding member of its Connecticut and Lower New York chapter, and was twice president of The Beau Monde, the national chapter devoted to the interests of writers of the Regency period.A native New Yorker, Sharon also lived in Boston and The Hague before moving to an eighteenth century farm in Connecticut with her husband and family.