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List Of Romantic Novelists
Notable novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the developme ... include: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X-Z Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Romantic Novelists Romantic novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Audience reception, Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary criticism commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Stuart
Violet Vivian Stuart ( ''née'' Finlay; 2 January 1914 – 18 August 1986) was a British writer from 1953 to 1986. She published under different pen names: her romantic novels as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart, her military sagas as V.A. Stuart, and her historical saga as William Stuart Long. In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first chairman. In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick writers' summer school. Biography Personal life Violet Vivian Finlay was born in Berkshire, England on 2 January 1914. She was the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay, the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Arbor
Eileen Norah Owbridge (''née'' Murphy; 8 September 1903 – 4 February 1994) was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985. She wrote doctor-nurse and foreign romances. Many of her doctor-nurse romances have been re-edited with different titles, that included medical words. She lived in Preston, Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ..., England. Bibliography Source: As Jane Arbor Single novels *''This Second Spring'', (1948) *''Each Song Twice Over'', (1948) *''Ladder of Understanding'', (1949) *''Strange Loyalties = Doctor's Love'', (1949) *''By Yet Another Door = Nurse in Waiting'', (1950) *''No Lease for Love = My Surgeon Neighbor'', (1950) *''The Heart Expects Adventure'', (1951) *''Memory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Anthony (author)
Laurie Blalock Vanzura(born Texas, United States) is an American author of contemporary romance novels, first under the pseudonym Laura Anthony, and now as Lori Wilde. Biography Laurie Blalock was born in Texas, United States. She wrote her first short story at age eight, and finished her first novel four years later. At sixteen, she submitted a story to Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. Although it was rejected, she received a handwritten note telling her to keep writing. She continued to write, finishing 60 short stories over the next 10 years, persisting even while attending nursing school. All of her short stories were rejected, and a writing teacher finally suggested, in 1990, that she try to write a novel. Wilde took the teacher's advice, and in 1994 sold her second completed work to Silhouette Romance under the pseudonym Laura Anthony. Wilde wrote 11 novels under that name, with one becoming a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Until 2004, Wilde wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucilla Andrews
Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (born 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt – d. 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British writer of 33 romance novels from 1954 to 1996. As Lucilla Andrews she specialised in hospital romances, and under the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote mystery romances. She was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award. Biography Born Lucilla Matthew Andrews on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father worked for the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex. She joined the British Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Andrews
Barbara Andrews is an American writer of 20 romance novels under her real name; with her daughter, Pam Hanson, she now writes under the pseudonyms Jennifer Drew and Pam Rock. Biography Barbara Andrews wanted a career she could combine with motherhood and four children. She made her first sale to ''Highlights for Children'', when her children were in kindergarten. She is the author of 20 romance novels under her own name. Andrews's daughter, Pam Hanson, majored in journalism in college and later worked as a reporter. Pam married a college professor and started a family. After the birth of her first child, Pam teamed up with her mother to write romance novels. Together they have published novels under the pseudonyms Jennifer Drew and Pam Rock. For several years, their partnership was long-distance, but nowadays they share a house in West Virginia, along with Pam's husband and their two sons, Erik and Andrew Hanson. In the summer of 2008, she moved to Nebraska with Pam and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Anderson
Catherine Anderson (born December 22, 1948) is an American best-selling writer of historical and contemporary romance novels since 1988. Biography Adeline Catherine was born on 22 December 1948 in Grants Pass, Oregon, the daughter of Benjamin Early La May, a chef. Her mother was a writer, and some of her earliest memories are of hearing her mother type stories on an old typewriter, and then read the finished work aloud. With this inspiration, she began writing her own stories as a child. Feeling that a career as a published writer was out of reach, however, she decided to major in accounting when she attended college so that she could help her husband, Sidney D. Anderson, keep the books at his company. After realizing that numbers did not make her happy, and with her husband's full blessing, Anderson dropped out of college so that she could pursue a writing career. Catherine Anderson's first four published books were category romance, under the Harlequin Intrigue romantic susp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Anderson (writer)
Caroline Anderson is the pseudonym by Caroline M. Woolnough (born British Hong Kong) is a popular British writer of over 80 contemporary romance novels to Mills & Boon (or Harlequin Enterprises Ltd) since 1991. She specializes in medical romances. Before writing, she has been a nurse, a secretary, a teacher, and had run her own business. Married with John, they had two sisters: Sarah and Hannah, and lived in Suffolk, England. Bibliography Single Novels *''Practice Makes Perfect'', 1991/12 *''Saving Dr. Gregory'', 1992/04 *''A Gentle Giant'', 1992/06 *''Just What the Doctor Ordered'', 1993/05 *''Picking Up the Pieces'', 1994/02 *''Once More, With Feeling'', 1994/12 *''Role Play'', 1995/02 *''Taken For Granted'', 1995/05 *''A Familiar Stranger'', 1995/08 *''One Step at a Time'', 1996/01 *''The Teapot Trail: A Taste of Cumbria'', 1996/01 *''Just Another Miracle!'', 1998/02 *''That Forever Feeling'', 1998/02 *''A Funny Thing Happened...'', 1999/01 *''Kids Included!'', 1999/06 *''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Andersen
Susan Andersen (born 1950) is an American writer of romance novels since 1989. Biography Born in 1950, Andersen was raised in Seattle, Washington with her two older brothers. She trained as a dental assistant, although she did not like working for dentists. After she turned 30, Andersen felt that she might have the "life experience to string an entire book together." Her first novel, ''Shadow Dance'' was published in 1989. Her novels are known for being funny as well as containing "sexy sizzle and great characterization." She has been nominated three times for ''Romantic Times Magazines Reviewers' Choice Awards, winning in 1998 for ''Baby, I'm Yours.'' She is a New York Times, USAToday, and Publishers Weekly best seller and has also been named a ''Romantic Times'' Career Achievement Award winner. She has appeared ten times on the list of 10 novels picked as Amazon.com Editor's Choice (in 2001, 2002 and 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Her novel Coming Undon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Andersen
Jessica S. Andersen (born 1973) is an American writer. Since 2001, she has published over forty books in romance, mystery and science genres. Andersen holds a PhD in Genetics from Tufts University. Biography Born in 1973, Andersen was born and raised in eastern Massachusetts, United States. Andersen received an undergraduate degree in biology from Tufts University, and then completed a PhD in genetics. Before beginning to write full time, Andersen worked as a patent agent at the U.S. Patent an Trademark Office, a freelance editor, landscaper and a professional horse trainer and riding coach. Bibliography Single novels * ''The Stable Affair'' (Ltdbooks 2002 ) * ''The Guardian of the Amulets'', 2003 * ''Bullseye'', September 2005 also in ''Silent Awakening'' * ''Red Alert'', January 2006 * ''Under the Microscope'', January 2007 * ''Prescription: Makeover'', April 2007 * ''Classified Baby'', August 2007 * ''Meet Me at Midnight'', September 2007 * ''Twin Targets'', 2008 also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Amber
Elizabeth Amber is a romance novelist who has written the series of paranormal fiction books called ''The Lord Of Satyr''. Biography Home Life Elizabeth Amber's interest in Greco-Roman mythology inspired this series. She is an animal lover with two cats, who volunteers at a local no-kill animal shelter. Her other hobbies include cooking, shopping, and spending time with her mother and sister. She is now an art historian specializing in ancient Greco-Roman artifacts. She has visited Italy and Greece and had seen the monuments there which has developed her interests in mythology. Writing career Elizabeth Amber wrote this series of erotic historical paranormal romance novels based on her interest in Greco-Roman artifacts celebrating the grape harvest. Satyrs are the carnal followers of the wine god, Bacchus in ancient Roman mythology, and are depicted on many urns and amphorae found in Roman ruins. In her novels, three half-satyr, half-human brothers own a lavish estate and vine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather MacAllister
Heather W. MacAllister (born Texas, United States) is a writer of over 40 romance novels since 1990, principally as Heather MacAllister. She has also signed her novels as Heather Allison. Her award-winning romance novels have been translated into 25 languages and published in dozens of countries. Biography MacAllister was born in Texas and is married to her high-school sweetheart. She became addicted to romance novels in college, yet still managed to graduate and become a music teacher. She began to write while their children grew. She sold her first novel in December 1989. She lives with her husband and their children in Texas. Bibliography As Heather Allison Single novels *''Deck The Halls'' (1990) *''Pulse Points'' (1991) *''Jack Of Hearts'' (1992) *''Ivy's League'' (1993) *''The Santa Sleuth'' (1994) *''Counterfeit Cowgirl'' (1994) *''Undercover Lover'' (1995) *''Temporary Texan'' (1996) *''His Cinderella Bride'' (1996) *''Marry Me'' (1997) *''Haunted Spouse'' (1997) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
