Sylvia Day
Novelist
Japanese American romance novelist best known for her bestselling Crossfire series. She has written under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.
Her first novel was published in 2006 and between 2008 and 2010, she won two National Readers' Choice Awards.
She served on the Board of Directors of Romance Writers of America from 2009 to 2013.
She was born in Los Angeles, California.
Judith Krantz is another well-known American romance novelist.