Anne Hoyt

Writing under the name Elizabeth Hoyt, Anne Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. Her publisher and author bio describe her as the author of more than twenty-five novels, and Publishers Weekly has praised her work as "mesmerizing."

According to her official biography, she was born in New Orleans, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She began writing when her youngest daughter was starting kindergarten, and her debut novel, The Raven Prince, was published in 2006.

Her official site says she later settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she continued writing historical romance. She also received the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance in 2018.