Megan Crane

Megan Crane
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vassar College University of York
Notable work(s)	Frenemies
Spouse(s)	Jeff Johnson

Megan Crane (born c. 1973) is an American novelist.

She was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Goheen, the 16th president of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India. Crane graduated from Vassar College, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of York in York, England. She is married to Jeff Johnson, the American comic book artist.^[1]

Crane is the author of a number of novels. English as a Second Language was published by Warner Books in 2004. Everyone Else's Girl was published by Warner Books' 5 Spot imprint in 2005. Frenemies was a Book Sense Notable in July 2007.^[2] Names My Sisters Call Me was published by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books) in 2008. Her fifth novel, I Love the 80s, was published by Quercus Books in March 2011. She has also written a number of work-for-hire young adult novels under different names, but does not reveal their titles. The first of these hit the New York Times Bestseller list in 2005.

Crane also writes romance novels for Harlequin Presents under the name Caitlin Crews. Her debut, Pure Princess, Bartered Bride, was published in February 2010 and hit the USA Today Bestseller List. Subsequent novels for Presents include Majesty, Mistress...Missing Heir in October 2010 (May 2010 in the UK), Katrakis's Last Mistress (published as Katrakis's Sweet Prize in North America in March 2011), Princess from the Past (February 2011 in the UK; February 2012 in North America), The Shameless Playboy (published as The Disgraced Playboy in North America in August 2011), The Replacement Wife (August 2011 in the UK), and Heiress Behind the Headlines (October 2011 in the UK). Her novella "The Reluctant Queen" appears in an anthology called A Royal Engagement (April 2011 in the UK as A Royal Wedding; November 2011 in North America).

In addition to writing books, Crane teaches creative writing courses online at mediabistro and at the prestigious UCLA Extension Writers' Program .

References

1. ^ "Megan Crane, Jeffrey Johnson", The New York Times, March 16, 2008. Accessed October 4, 2008.
2. ^ Marshall, John. "Chick lit is alive and well in Megan Crane's latest novel, 'Frenemies'", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 28, 2007. Accessed October 4, 2008.

External links

• Official Megan Crane site
• Official Caitlin Crews site

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Name	Crane, Megan
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Short description	Novelist
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Place of birth	Houston, Texas
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