Lisa Kleypas (born 1964) is a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.
Kleypas has been a full-time romance writer since selling that first book. Her novels have ranked high on major best-seller lists, sold millions of copies around the globe and have been translated into fourteen different languages.
At age 21, Kleypas sold her first novel.

Awards:
1998 - Waldenbooks Award for greatest sales growth, Someone to Watch Over Me
1999 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist, Someone to Watch Over Me
2002 - Romance Writers of American RITA Award finalist, Suddenly You
2002 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award winner for her Christmas anthology novella in Wish List
2002 - Romantic Times Magazine Best Sensuous Historical Romance, Lady Sophia's Lover
2002 - Publishers Weekly starred reviews for Lady Sophia's Lover and When Strangers Marry
2003 - Publishers Weekly starred review, Worth Any Price
2003 - Amazon Editor's Top Ten Picks forBest Romance of 2003, Where's My Hero and Worth Any Price
2004 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for best Short Historical, Worth Any Price
2004 - Publishers Weekly starred review, Secrets of a Summer Night
2006 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist, Short Historical Category, It Happened One Autumn
2007 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist, Short Historical Category, The Devil in Winter and Scandal in Spring