Elizabeth Camden is best known for her engaging romance novels featuring clever heroines with richly layered storylines. Before she was a writer, she was an academic librarian at some of the largest and smallest libraries in America, but her favorite is the continually growing library in her own home. Her novels have won the RITA and Christy Award, and she lives in Florida with her husband who graciously tolerates her intimidating stockpile of books.
Now for the rest of the story: I’ve spent far too much time on college campuses in my life. I earned a B.A. in History from Trinity University, then went on to earn a Master’s degree in History from the University of Virginia. After learning the hard way that these degrees don’t lead to much of a career unless paired with some sort of professional certification, I went on to earn a Master’s in Library Science from Indiana University.
And that, my friends, helped launch me into one of the best careers possible: life as an academic librarian at both large and small college campuses across America.
I married relatively late in life, which turned out to be an odd kind of blessing. I had grown very accustomed to living on my own, and although I was not particularly content being alone, I had become reconciled to it.
Then, in my mid-thirties and just a few weeks after buying my first house, I met the man I was meant to spend the rest of my life with. My years as a single woman taught me many things. I learned to be independent and resilient. I learned how to manage my investments, earn and save enough money to have investments, mow my own lawn, fix the rickety appliances in my sixty-year-old house, and spend the holidays on my own when travel to family was not possible. Most importantly, those years taught me never to take my husband for granted. I give daily thanks for the blessing of sharing a life with my favorite person on the planet.
After a lifetime spent among books, it felt only natural to begin writing my own. For many years I juggled my full-time job with writing novels in the evenings and on weekends. By 2019, I was able to leave my day job as a librarian to devote myself to full-time writing.
As for who I really am? I love old Hitchcock films, a sweaty run through the Florida countryside, and the blue hour, that magical moment when the sun slips below the horizon and everything softens. My husband and I travel a lot, and I’ve been lucky enough to visit Antarctica at the bottom of the world all the way to the Arctic Circle at the top, and many places in between. After spending my entire adult life on a college campus, either as a student or a librarian, I have finally been able to pursue my ultimate goal of writing professionally.
I now live in a rural part of Central Florida, where on any given day I can drive through orange groves, pass cattle ranches, or hike into the wilderness. And yes, there is always a novel in progress.
