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Caroline Linden is an American author of historical and contemporary romance. She won Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella in 2012 for I Love the Earl, making it the first digital-first publication to win this award. Her books have been translated into eleven foreign languages.
Linden grew up the daughter of a member of United States Air Force. She earned her undergraduate degree in math from Harvard University and worked doing actuarial coding for a financial services firm. She met her husband in the math department of Harvard.
After a brief stint in Miami, she returned to Boston with her family, which created a break in her computer programming career. She decided to try fiction writing one night when she had nothing to read and a new iMac. After spending five years on three manuscripts, her agent sold What A Woman Needs. She likes writing books set in Regency England because it was "rich in intrigue and drama, with a major war, political upheaval, national scandals and spies, but it was also on the cusp of a new age of invention and scientific discovery. It was a good age for woman, historically speaking. It was also a beautiful age, with an emphasis on graceful architecture, landscaping and fashion—and that always makes a world more appealing."