Personal life
Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. In 1970, after she graduated school, she went on a blind date with Ralph Bruce Lindsey, whom she married 4 months later. The couple resided in Hawaii and had three children; Alfred, Joseph and Garret. After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry.Writing career
Lindsey wrote her first book, ''Captive Bride'', in 1977 "on a whim". The book was a success, as have been the forty-nine novels that followed. As of 2006 more than fifty-eight million copies of her books had been sold worldwide, and her work has been translated into twelve languages.Style
Owing to their diversity of settings Lindsey's work covers a number of romance subgenres, including historical fiction (Lindsey set her passionate tales in many locales, including theCaribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...; theBarbary Coast The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) were the coastal regions of central and western North Africa, more specifically, the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, a ...;England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...as early as the year 873;Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ..., when the Vikings ruled; 19th-centuryTexas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...,Wyoming Wyoming ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States, Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho t ...andMontana Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...; and the planet Kystran, in a series of science-fiction bodice-rippers.
Bibliography
By Reading Order
Viking Haardrad Family Saga Series
# '' Fires of Winter'' (1980) # '' Hearts Aflame'' (1987) # ''Surrender My Love'' (1994)Southern Series
# ''Glorious Angel'' (1982) # ''Heart of Thunder'' (1983)Deep space/ Ly-san-ter Family Saga
# ''Warrior's Woman'' (1990) # ''Keeper Of The Heart'' (1993) # ''Heart Of A Warrior'' (2001) (Deep space - Earth)Wyoming westerns series
# ''Brave the Wild Wind'' (1984) # ''Savage Thunder'' (1989) # ''Angel'' (1992)Malory-Anderson Family Saga Series
# ''Love Only Once'' (1985) (Regina Ashton/Nicholas Eden) # ''Tender Rebel'' (1988) (Anthony Malory/Roslynn Chadwick) # ''Gentle Rogue'' (1990) (James Malory/Georgina Anderson) # ''The Magic of You'' (1993) (Amy Malory/Warren Anderson) # ''Say You Love Me'' (1996) (Derek Malory/Kelsey Langton) # ''The Present'' (1998) (Christopher Malory/Anastasia Stephanoff) # ''A Loving Scoundrel'' (2004) (Jeremy Malory/Danette "Danny" Hilary) # ''Captive of My Desires'' (2006) (Drew Anderson/Gabrielle Brooks) # ''No Choice But Seduction'' (2008) (Boyd Anderson/Katey Tyler) # ''That Perfect Someone'' (2010) (Richard Allen/Julia Miller) # ''Stormy Persuasion'' (2014) (Judith Malory/Nathan Tremayne) # ''Beautiful Tempest'' (2017) (Jacqueline Malory/Damon Reeves)Straton Family Saga Series
# ''A Heart So Wild'' (1986) # ''All I Need Is You'' (1997)Medieval (Shefford's Knights) Series
# ''Defy Not the Heart'' (1989) # ''Joining'' (1999)Cardinia's Royal Family
# ''Once a Princess'' (1991) # ''You Belong to Me'' (1994)Sherring Cross Series
# ''Man of My Dreams'' (1992) # ''Love Me Forever'' (1995) # ''The Pursuit'' (2002)Locke Family Series
# ''The Heir'' (2000) (Duncan MacTavish and Sabrina Lambert) # ''The Devil Who Tamed Her'' (2007) (Raphael Locke and Ophelia Reid) # ''A Rogue of My Own'' (2009) (Rupert St. John and Rebecca Marshall) # ''Let Love Find You'' (2012) (Devin Baldwin and Amanda Locke)Montana Series
# ''One Heart to Win'' (2013) (Tiffany Warren & Hunter Callahan) # ''Wildfire in His Arms'' (2015) (Maxine & Degan Grant) # ''Marry Me by Sundown'' (2018) (Violet Mitchell & Morgan Callahan)Single novels
* ''Captive Bride'' (1977) * ''A Pirate's Love'' (1978) * ''Paradise Wild'' (1981) * ''So Speaks the Heart'' (1983) * ''A Gentle Feuding'' (1984) * ''Tender Is the Storm'' (1985) * ''When Love Awaits'' (1986) * ''Secret Fire'' (1987) * ''Silver Angel'' (1988) * ''Prisoner of My Desire'' (1991) * ''Until Forever'' (1995) * ''Home for the Holidays'' (2000) * ''A Man to Call My Own'' (2003) * ''Marriage Most Scandalous'' (2006) * ''When Passion Rules'' (2011) * ''Make Me Love You'' (2016) * ''Temptation's Darling'' (2019)By Setting
Middle Ages
Medieval Vikings * ''Fires of Winter'' (1980) * ''Hearts Aflame'' (1987) * ''Surrender My Love'' (1994)=Medieval England
= * ''So Speaks the Heart'' (1983) * ''A Gentle Feuding'' (1984) * ''When Love Awaits'' (1986) * ''Defy Not the Heart'' (1989) * ''Prisoner of My Desire'' (1991) * ''Joining'' (1999)Early Modern Times
Arabian Dunes * ''Captive Bride'' (1977) * ''Silver Angel'' (1988) Caribbean * ''A Pirate's Love'' (1978)Modern Times
Regency England
* ''Love Only Once'' (1985) * ''Tender Rebel'' (1988) * ''Gentle Rogue'' (1990) * ''The Magic Of You'' (1993) * ''Say You Love Me'' (1996) * ''The Present'' (1998) * ''A Loving Scoundrel'' (2004) * ''Captive of My Desires'' (2006) * ''No Choice But Seduction'' (2008) * ''Stormy Persuasion'' (2014) * ''Make Me Love You'' (2016)Regency England & Scotland
* ''Man of My Dreams'' (1992) * ''Love Me Forever'' (1995) * ''Home for the Holidays'' (2000) * ''The Heir'' (2000) * ''The Pursuit'' (2002) * ''Marriage Most Scandalous'' (2006) * ''The Devil Who Tamed Her'' (2007) * ''A Rogue of My Own'' (2009) * ''Let Love Find You'' (2012) * ''Temptation's Darling'' (2019)Eastern Europe
* ''Secret Fire'' (1987) (London --> Russia) * ''Once a Princess'' (1991) (U.S. --> Cardinia) * ''You Belong to Me'' (1994) (Russia --> Cardinia) * ''When Passion Rules'' (2011) (London --> Lubinia)America in 19th century
* ''Paradise Wild'' (1981) (Boston --> Hawaii) * ''Glorious Angel'' (1982) (Texas) * ''Heart of Thunder'' (1983) (Wild West) * ''Brave the Wild Wind'' (1984) (Wyoming) * ''Tender Is the Storm'' (1985) (Wild West) * ''A Heart So Wild'' (1986) (Texas) * ''Savage Thunder'' (1989) (Wyoming) * ''Angel'' (1992) (Wild West) * ''All I Need Is You'' (1997) (Wild West) * ''A Man to Call My Own'' (2003) (Wild West) * ''One Heart to Win (2013)'' (Wild West) (50th novel by Johanna Lindsey) * ''Wildfire in His Arms'' (2015) (Wild West) * ''Marry Me by Sundown'' (2018) (Wild West)Paranormal Fantasy
Deep space/ Ly-san-ter Family Saga * ''Warrior's Woman'' (1990) * ''Keeper Of The Heart'' (1993) * ''Heart Of A Warrior'' (2001) (Deep space --> Earth) Time Travel * ''Until Forever'' (1995) (Now --> Middle Ages)Legacy
The covers of Lindsey's novels have been parodied, fitting in as they do with a trend in romance publishing to use gaudy painted designs that feature a muscular male model with his chest exposed, towering above or otherwise dominating floridly dressed women. In December 2019, her son Alfred announced that Lindsey died on October 27, 2019, at the age of 67. The cause of death was Stage 4 lung cancer. Italian modelI loved being featured on her covers. To this day, ''Man of My Dreams'' is still one of my all time favorites. Rest in peace, Johanna. Thank you for sharing your gift. You will be missed.
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