Elizabeth was born in
New Orleans, where her mother’s family has lived for
generations, but she was raised in the frigid winters
of St. Paul, Minnesota. Growing up, her family traveled
extensively in Britain, spending a summer in St. Andrews,
Scotland, and a year in Oxford. She earned a bachelor
of arts degree in anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Wisconsin was also where she met
her archaeologist husband--on a dig in a cornfield.
Continuing the cornfield theme, Elizabeth and her
husband live in central Illinois with their two children
and three dogs. She is an avid gardener with over
26 varieties of daylilies in her multiple gardens
and more hostas than any one person can count. The
Hoyt family enjoys taking family vacations that invariably
end up at an archaeological site.
“Incredibly vivid lead characters,
earthy writing and an intense love story buy the third
entry in Hoyt's Georgian–set romance series.”
—Publishers Weekly
Archived
Novel Spotlight—April 2007
