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Michele Gorman | |
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![]() Gorman in 2019 | |
Born | Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States |
Pen name | Lilly Bartlett |
Occupation | Author |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Genre | Chick lit, fiction |
Notable works | Single in the City The Curvy Girls Club The Big Little Wedding in Carlton Square The Staycation |
Website | |
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Michele Gorman is an American-born British author. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Gorman is represented by Hardman & Swainson. [7] Her debut, Single in the City, was published by Penguin Books; [6] [8] Gorman has now published more than a dozen books with Notting Hill Press [9] in the US and Orion/Trapeze and HarperCollins in the UK and the rest of the world. [10] [11] [12] [4] She also writes cosy romantic comedies under the pen-name Lilly Bartlett.
Gorman was raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, [13] and her background is financial rather than literary. She went back to school full-time in Chicago for her master's degree in Sociology. [13] In 1998 she moved to London where she worked as a market analyst for more than a decade. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Her first book, Single in the City, was published by Penguin Books in June 2010. In 2014 she signed with Avon (publisher), an imprint of HarperCollins [18] and in 2017 she moved to HarperImpulse for the publication of her Lilly Bartlett pen-named books. [19] In 2020 she signed with Orion/Trapeze for the publication of The Staycation. [12] Today she is a full-time author living in London. [13] [7]
In 2012, Gorman joined forces with fellow chick lit authors Talli Roland and Belinda Jones to found Notting Hill Press. [20] [21]