Her books are noted for being full of humor, with sharp, witty dialogue.
Pottinger considers herself a feminist and gives her heroines feminist qualities that are not necessarily true to the attitudes of the times her novels are set. She left medical school and devoted herself full-time to her writing. After only a few short months of studying medicine, however, Pottinger realized that she preferred writing to dissections. She postponed medical school for two years while she wrote two more novels.īy the time Pottinger finally entered Yale medical school to realize her dream of being a doctor, three of her books had been published. A few weeks after she was accepted to medical school, she discovered that her first two novels, Splendid and Dancing At Midnight, had been sold at auction, an unusual occurrence for a novice romance author. To occupy herself during the long days of studying science, Pottinger began to write light-hearted Regency romance novels. That decision required her to attend two additional years of college to complete the science prerequisites necessary to apply for medical school. During her senior year of college, she realized that she did not know what she wanted to do with her degree and decided to attend medical school. Pottinger graduated from Harvard with a degree in Art History. After finishing her novel three years later, she submitted it to Sweet Dreams, but was rejected. Challenged to prove that she meant her statement, Pottinger sat down at their early computer and wrote her first two chapters. She promptly told him that she was studying them in order to write one herself. Her father disagreed with her choices of reading material, Sweet Dreams and the Sweet Valley High books, and told her she could keep reading them only if she could prove that they were good for her. Even as a small child she devoured books. Julie Pottinger was raised primarily in New England, although she spent much time in California after her parents divorced.
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