Virginia Evans
American novelist
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Virginia Evans (born in 1986)[1] is an American novelist.
Life
Evans' family moved to Severna Park, Maryland when she was in elementary school, where she would live most of her childhood.[2] Her father managed retirement communities, while her mother was an event planner for a catering company.
She received a Bachelor's degree in English literature from James Madison University[3]. There she met her husband, Mark Evans.[2] In 2019, she and her family moved from the United States to Dublin so that she could pursue a Master's degree in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin.[4][5] She started writing The Correspondent after returning to the United States. She lives in Winston-Salem, NC[6] and is married with two children.[7]
Before The Correspondent, Evans wrote seven unsuccessful books over 18 years, completing her first when she was 19. She wrote a self-published novel in 2019.[8] While working on her novels, she ran the Rotary Club in her city for seven years, she was the scheduler for an orthopedic surgeon for a few years, she worked for a bankruptcy lawyer for a year, and was a barista.[9]
Works
- Evans, Virginia (2025-04-29). The Correspondent. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-593-79843-0. [10][11][12][13][14]
By December 2025, The Correspondent had sold 550,000 copies and was on the New York Times best-seller list.[15]
