The "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie has already made more than $266 million at the box office.
In 2012, the erotica trilogy by E.L James became a phenomenon dubbed "mommy porn."
Women openly read it without shame on the subway and went nuts fan-casting the full-length movie.
The raunchy books follow naive college student Anastasia Steele and her billionaire boyfriend Christian Grey; however, you probably do not know much about series' creator.
E.L. James is just a pen name.
E.L. James' real name is Erika Leonard.
James grew up in Buckinghamshire.
There she was privately educated and took up English literature and history at the University of Kent.
The author now resides in West London with her family.
She's a mom.
James is a 51-year-old British mother of two teenage sons.
She has said in interviews her sons are "mortified" their mother wrote the explicit novels.
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