Fifty Shades Fifty Shades Fifty Shades is an adult erotic BDSM romance franchise created by E. L. James; originating as a fanfic about the young-adult genre "Twilight" teen romance novel series by Stephenie Meyer. It has produced a novel series, with an original novel trilogy and two follow-up novels, as well as a film trilogy. Anastasia Steele, a young college graduate meets Christian Grey, a young business mogul, and becomes his submissive partner. The series explores the development of their relationship. The "Fifty Shades" novel trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed) was originally written as a fan
E. L. James University of Kent in South East England where she studied History. After leaving university, James became a studio manager’s assistant at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. She married Niall Leonard, a screenwriter, in 1987, and they have two teenage sons. As of 2012, they reside in Brentford, west London. James says the idea for the "Fifty Shades" trilogy began as a response to the vampire novel series "Twilight". In late 2008 James saw the movie "Twilight", and then became intensely absorbed with the novels that the movie was based on. She read the novels several times over