Ana Huang is a Chinese-American writer who mainly writes books in the romance and new adult fiction genres. She is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
Early life
Huang is the daughter of Chinese people who live in another country. When she was a child, her mother helped her practice English by writing stories. Later, she wrote stories as a hobby and shared them on Wattpad. She said, "I wrote my first novel when I was 15, and I shared it online when I was about 18."
In college, Huang studied international relations. While in college, she went to China as a foreign exchange student in Shanghai.
Career
Huang worked in press relations at a company that provides advice about international politics.
After 2019, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Huang began writing and publishing her own novels. She promoted her books on TikTok. Her Twisted series became very popular online and was published again by Bloom Books in 2022.
In 2022, Huang was featured in Cosmopolitan magazine. In 2023, she was featured in Elle magazine India and on Good Morning America.
In 2023, her novel King of Greed reached the top of the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list. Her book King of Sloth also reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and the top of USA Today Booklist. Twisted Love stayed on the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list for 61 weeks.
In 2024, Huang, with 1,474,194 print copies sold, is the fourth highest-selling BookTok author.
Huang uses "alpha readers" to check the accuracy of facts in her stories.
Works
Book Titles and Their Release Years
- If We Ever Meet Again (2020)
- If the Sun Never Sets (2020)
- If Love Had a Price (2020)
- If We Were Perfect (2020)
- Twisted Love (2021)
- Twisted Games (2021)
- Twisted Hate (2022)
- Twisted Lies (2022)
- King of Wrath (2022)
- King of Pride (2023)
- King of Greed (2023)
- King of Sloth (2024)
- King of Envy (2025)
- King of Gluttony (2026)
- King of Lust (2027)
- The Striker (2024)
- The Defender (2025)
- The Keeper (2026)
- All I've Never Wanted (2013)