Jean Catherine Coulter (born December 26, 1942) is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and

historical romance Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Walter Scott helped popularize in the early 19th century. Varieties Viking These books feature Vikings during the D ...

s who currently resides in northern California.

Biography

Early years

Coulter grew up on a horse ranch in Cameron County, Texas. Her grandmother, who died at the young age of 37, was also a writer. Her father was a painter and singer, and her mother is a retired concert pianist. Coulter wrote her first two novels, fifteen pages each, when she was fourteen. While a freshman at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, Coulter wrote poetry. After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Coulter attended

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifi ...

and earned a master's degree in early 19th-century European history. She took a job as a speechwriter for a

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executive. As her own husband was then a medical student, she spent many of her evenings alone, reading romance novels. One night when they were home together, she found herself in the middle of a particularly bad book and threw it across room, asserting that even she could do better. Her husband challenged her to prove herself, and the two spent the weekend plotting out a storyline for a gothic romance. She wrote the novel in the evenings.

Writing career

When Coulter finished writing her novel she sent it to an editor at Signet. Three days later Signet offered her a three-book contract. That first novel, ''The Autumn Countess'', was published by

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Coulter generally publishes one historical romance and one suspense novel each year, and has been busily rewriting many of her earlier Regency romances to turn them into longer historical romances.

Personal life

Coulter sits down at her computer every morning at 6:30 a.m. to review her email before beginning writing at 7:30 a.m. She normally finishes writing by 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Coulter lives in

Sausalito, California Sausalito ( Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located southeast of Marin City, south-southeast of San Rafael, and about north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge. Sausalito's ...

with her husband.

Bibliography

Regency

Baron series

#''The Wild Baron'' (1981/1997) #''The Offer'' (1981/1997) #''The Deception'' (1983/1999)

The Sherbrooke series

#''The Sherbrooke Bride'' (1992) #''The Hellion Bride'' (1992) #''The Heiress Bride'' (1993) #''Mad Jack'' (1999) #''The Courtship'' (2000) #''The Scottish Bride'' (2001) #''Pendragon'' (2002) #''The Sherbrooke Twins'' (2004) #''Lyon's Gate'' (2005) #''Wizards Daughter'' (2007) #''The Prince of Ravenscar'' (2011)

=Grayson Sherbrooke's Otherworldly Adventures -novellas/h3>
= #''The Strange Visitation at Wolffe Hall'' (2015) #''The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor'' (2016) #''The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House'' (October 30, 2018)

Night Trilogy

#''Night Fire'' (1989) #''Night Shadow'' (1989) #''Night Storm'' (1990)

Legacy series

#''The Wyndham Legacy'' (1994) #''The Nightingale Legacy'' (1995) #''The Valentine Legacy'' (1995)

The Magic Trilogy

#''Midsummer Magic'' (1987) #''Calypso Magic'' (1988) #''Moonspun Magic'' (1988)

Single novels

# ''The Countess'' (1978/1999) # ''The Rebel Bride'' (1997) # ''The Heir'' (1980) # ''The Duke'' (1997) # ''Lord Harry'' (1993/1997)

Georgian

#''Devil's Embrace'' Penguin/Signet (re-issued, re-written version 5/2000) #''Devil's Daughter'' Penguin/Signet (re-release 9/12/2000)

Victorian/Early San Francisco

#''Evening Star'' Penguin/Topaz (original title ''Sweet Surrender'') #''Midnight Star'' Penguin/Topaz, (reissued 10/96) #''Wild Star'' Penguin/Topaz #''Jade Star'' Penguin/Topaz

Medieval

#''Warrior's Song'' (rewritten version of ''Chandra'') Penguin/Signet #''Fire Song'' Penguin/Signet #''Earth Song'' Penguin/Signet #''Secret Song'' Penguin/Signet #''Rosehaven'' Berkley/Jove #''The Penwyth Curse'' (new release Jan. 2003) Berkley/Jove #''The Valcourt Heiress'' Putnam Adult (October 2010)

Viking Era

#''Season of the Sun'' Penguin/NAL/Onyx #''Lord of Hawkfell Island'' Berkley/Jove #''Lord of Raven's Peak'' Berkley/Jove #''Lord of Falcon Ridge'' Berkley/Jove

Contemporary romance

*''Aftershocks'' Silhouette/Harlequin *''Afterglow'' Silhouette/Harlequin *''The Aristocrat'' Silhouette/Harlequin

Contemporary romantic thrillers

# ''False Pretenses'' (1988) # ''Impulse'' (1990) # ''Beyond Eden'' (1992) # ''Born to Be Wild'' (2006)

FBI Thrillers

# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # elease Date: August 10, 2021 ;Omnibus editions # (containing ''The Cove'' & ''The Maze'') # (containing ''The Target'' & ''The Edge'') # (containing ''Riptide'' & ''Hemlock Bay'') # (containing ''Eleventh Hour'' & ''Blindside'')

A Brit in the FBI

# written with J.T. Ellison # "The Tao of JT"
, December 21, 2013 written with J.T. Ellison # written with J.T. Ellison # written with J.T. Ellison # written with J.T. Ellison # written with J.T. Ellison elease Date: March 26, 2019

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coulter, Catherine 1942 births Living people American romantic fiction writers Writers of historical romances American historical novelists Boston College alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni People from Cameron County, Texas Novelists from Texas Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area People from Sausalito, California American women novelists Women romantic fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Women historical novelists Novelists from California