# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-l-james
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:44:32.171Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-l-james"
name: "E. L. James"
slug: "e-l-james"
description: "Erika Mitchell, known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades series of erotic romance novels, which spawned a multimedia franchise including a film trilogy of the same name. Prior to this, she wrote the Twilight fan fiction \"Master of the Universe\" that served as the basis for the Fifty Shades series under the web name Snowqueens Icedragon. In 2019, she published her first book unconnected with the fictional world of Fifty Shades, The Mister, to negative critical reaction."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/E._L._James_-_2019_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump