E. L. James wrote Fifty Shades of Grey.
E. L. James . She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey , Fifty Shades Darker , and Fifty Shades Freed , along with the companion novel Grey : Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian ; and under Snowqueen 's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction `` Master of the Universe '' that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy . Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James .