Many of Elizabeth George‘s readers are under the impression she’s British. (She was born in Warren, Ohio.) When asked in Publisher’s Weekly Interview why she decided to set her books in England, she replied, “I have a longtime love of England, and I have never believed in the tired advice, ‘Write what you know.’ What I knew was ordinary. Why would I want to write about that?”
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(Publisher’s Weekly, May 25)