|
|
|
Nora Roberts
Pseudonym: J. D. Robb. 
(Notify me via e-mail when Nora Roberts releases a new book.) Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along. A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn't reading or making up stories. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981. Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore together. Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl. She has raised two sons. Having spent her life surrounded by men has given Ms. Roberts a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers. It was, she's been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring men out or running away screaming. Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.
2004 RITA for Best Contemporary
Single Title Finalist Birthright |
Books
Homeport
High Noon
The Hollow
Honest Illusions
Blood Brothers
High Noon
Sanctuary
Angels Fall
Valley of Silence
Dance of the Gods
Morrigan's Cross
A Little Magic
Daring to Dream
Midnight Bayou
Finding the Dream
A Little Fate
Holding the Dream
Angels Fall
Montana Sky
Blue Smoke
The Quinn Legacy
The Quinn Brothers
Red Lily
Spellbound
Blue Smoke
The Official Nora Roberts Companion
Gabriel's Angel
Northern Lights
True Betrayals
Black Rose
Divine Evil
Lovers & Dreamers
Blue Dahlia
Northern Lights
Moon Shadows
Charmed & Enchanted
Divided in Death
Visions in Death
A Little Magic
Hidden Riches
A Little Fate
Entranced
Remember When
The Lives and Loves of Four Brothers on the Windswept Shores
Birthright
Naked in Death
Captivated
Chesapeake Blue
Key of Valor
Key of Knowledge
Key of Light
Once Upon a Midnight
Remember When
Private Scandals
Three Fates
Birthright
Truly, Madly Manhattan
Table For Two
Midnight Bayou
Chesapeake Blue
Once Upon A Kiss
Face The Fire
Three Fates
The Villa
A Little Magic
Heaven And Earth
Midnight Bayou
Once Upon A Rose
Sacred Sins
Inner Harbor
Rising Tides
Dance Upon the Air
Sea Swept
Carolina Moon
The Stanislaski Sisters
Heart of the Sea
Once Upon a Dream
Night Tales
Once Upon A Star
Enchanted
The Donovan Legacy |
TheBestReviews | SensualRomance | Articles | Interviews | Board | Contact Editor | Advertise
|
© 2000-2008 writerspace.com  |
