To celebrate the release of Fifty Shades Darker on DVD, we’ve put together some fun facts that you may not know about the book’s author, E. L. James.
• Her real name is Erika Mitchell – and her pen name while writing the Fifty Shades series was Snowqueen’s Icedragon.
• Her personal car is a Mini.
• James was born to a Chilean mother and Scottish father.
• Married her husband, Niall Leonard, in 1987, and the couple have two sons.
• She was listed on TIME Magazine‘s 2012 list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”.