± This is a list of published novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels.

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• Christina Abbey
• Hailey Abbott
  Hailey Abbott
  Hailey Abbott is an American author of teenage romance novels. She grew up in southern California where she split her time between creative writing and the beach. She now lives in New York City....
  
  
• Laura Abbot
  Laura Abbot
  Laura Abbot , is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels primarily in the Harlequin Superromance line.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shana Abé
  Shana Abé
  Shana Abé is an American author of romance novels. She is a past winner of the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and has won numerous Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.-Biography:Shana Abé was born in Texas...
  
  
• Cherry Adair
  Cherry Adair
  Cherry Adair is an award-winning and best-selling American romantic fiction writer. She lives near Seattle, Washington with her husband and their two standard schnauzers, Max and Chase, who compete nationally in agility trials.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jennie Adams
  Jennie Adams
  Jennie Adams is an Australian writer of romance novels since 2005. She has had articles and short stories published in magazines and periodicals in Australia and overseas...
  
  
• Cecelia Ahern
  Cecelia Ahern
  Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, since 2004. In addition to publishing several novels, she has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies, for which all her royalties go to charity.Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate...
  
  
• Michele Albert
• Rochelle Alers
  Rochelle Alers
  Rochelle Alers is an American writer of romance novels. She has also written under the pen names Susan James and Rena McLeary.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kate Alexander, (1927)
• Trisha Alexander
• Victoria Alexander
  Victoria Alexander
  Victoria Alexander is an American author of historical romance novels. She has been nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award four times, winning once, for A Visit From Sir Nicholas, which Romantic Times described as "overflowing with heart-tugging scenes, simmering sexual tension,...
  
  
• Jo Ann Algermissen
  Jo Ann Algermissen
  Jo Ann Algermissen is an author of contemporary romance novels. She also writes as Anna Hudson. She has won three Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, for her novels I Do?, Marry-Me Christmas, and A Husband for Christmas, and has been nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement...
  
  
• Kate Allan
  Kate Allan
  Kate Allan is British historical romance novelist.Allan was educated at the all-girls' Bedford High School and Repton School where she was a contemporary of actors Tom Chambers and Nicholas Burns. In 1997 she graduated from the University of York with a BA in history...
  
  
• Barbara Allen
  Vivian Stuart
  Vivian Stuart, née Violet Vivian Finlay , was a British writer from 1953 to 1986. She was published under different pen names; she signed her romance novels as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart, she signed her military sagas as V.A...
  
  
• Charlotte Vale Allen
  Charlotte Vale Allen
  Charlotte Vale-Allen is a writer of contemporary fiction. She lived in the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1964 working as a singer and actress. She emigrated to the United States in 1966 following a brief return to Canada. After marrying Walter Bateman Allen Jr...
  
  , (19 January 1941 (age 71))
• Harper Allen
  Harper Allen
  Harper Allen is an Canadian writer of contemporary and fantasy romance novels since 1998.-Biography:Allen is of Irish ancestry and works as a court reporter for the judicial system. She is a four-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award by Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine...
  
  
• Heather Allison
• Rokaya Al-Shehmani
• Elizabeth Amber
  Elizabeth Amber
  Elizabeth Amber is an author of erotic historical paranormal romance novels. Her best known series, The Lords of Satyr, follows a family of Tuscan lords who are Satyrs and who are protecting the earth from a series of evil creatures. The heroes of the Lords of Satyr novels sprout a second penis...
  
  
• Karen Anders
  Karen Anders
  Karen Anders is an American writer of romance novels. She has received the HOLT Medallion for her work.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jessica Andersen
  Jessica Andersen
  Jessica Andersen is an American writer of mystery and medicine. She has a PhD in Genetics.-Biography:Jessica Andersen was born and raised in eastern Massachusetts...
  
  
• Susan Andersen
  Susan Andersen
  -Biography: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...
  
  
• Caroline Anderson
  Caroline Anderson
  Caroline Anderson is a popular British writer of over 80 contemporary romance novels to Mills & Boon since 1991. She specializes in medical romances. She has lived in Suffolk, England.-Single Novels:...
  
  
• Catherine Anderson
  Catherine Anderson
  Catherine Anderson, born in 1947, is an American best-selling writer of historical and contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Some of Anderson's earliest memories are of hearing her mother type stories on an old typewriter, and then read the finished work aloud. With this inspiration, Anderson...
  
  , (1947)
• Barbara Andrews
  Barbara Andrews
  Barbara Andrews is an American writer of 20 romance novels as her real name, and now with her daughter Pam Andrews Hanson, they write under the pseudonyms Jennifer Drew and Pam Rock.- Biography :...
  
  
• Lucilla Andrews
  Lucilla Andrews
  Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton was a British romantic novelist who wrote as Lucilla Andrews.She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II.She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured...
  
  , (21 November 1919-)
• Laura Anthony (pen name of Lori Wilde)
• Jane Arbor
  Jane Arbor
  Jane Arbor was the pseudonym used by Eileen Norah Owbridge a British writer of 57 romance for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985....
  
  
• Catherine Archer
  Catherine Archer
  Catherine J. Archibald is a writer of historical romance novels as Catherine Archer and Catherine Archibald. She published her first novel Rose among thorns in 1992, and since then has published 13 historical novels, mainly located in the medieval age.-Ainsworth's Bride series:#Winter's Bride,...
  
  , (August 17-)
• Jennifer Archer
  Jennifer Archer
  Jennifer Archer, is an author of young adult/teen fiction, women's fiction and romance born in Cleburne, north central Texas. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists, and have been nominated for numerous awards....
  
  
• Catherine Archibald, (August 17-)
• Lindsay Armstrong
  Lindsay Armstrong
  Lindsay Armstrong is a popular South African-Australian writer of over 65 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1981.Armstrong was born and raised in South Africa, and married a New Zealand-born man who worked in West Africa...
  
  
• Tilly Armstrong
  Tilly Armstrong
  Tilly Armstrong ) was a British writer of romance novels from 1978 to 1998, she also wrote as Tania Langley and Kate Alexander....
  
  , (1927)
• Judith Arnold
  Judith Arnold
  Barbara Keiler , well known as Judith Arnold, is a best-selling American author of over eighty-five romance novels since 1983. She has also been published as Ariel Berk and Thea Frederick.-Biography:...
  
  , (April 7-)
• Jane Ashford, (20 August 1948 (age 63))
• Jacqueline Ashley
  Jacqueline Ashley
  Jacqueline Ashley Casto was an American writer of romance novels. Her pseudonyms include Jackie Black, Jacqueline Ashley and Jackie Casto.-Single novels:*Winter Winds *Crimson Morning *Autumn Fires...
  
  
• Dawn Atkins
  Dawn Atkins
  Dawn Atkins is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Dawn Atkins has been writing since childhood. In the early 1980s she sold the first of her work, several romance short stories which were published by True Love magazine. She then wrote her first romance novel, which was...
  
  
• Jane Austen
  Jane Austen
  Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
  
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• Anne Avery, (1938-)

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• Jacqueline Baird
  Jacqueline Baird
  Jacqueline Baird is popular English writer of over 30 romance novels since 1988.-Biography:Jacqueline Baird was born on April 1 in Northumberland, the Border County of England...
  
  
• Anne Baker
  Anne Baker
  Anne Baker is a British writer of historical biographies.Anne Salmond was born just before the outbreak of World War I, the daughter of Geoffrey Salmond who later became the professional head of the Royal Air Force. Anne Salmond was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford And lived with her father...
  
  
• Faith Baldwin
  Faith Baldwin
  Faith Baldwin was a very successful U.S. author of romance and fiction, publishing some 100 novels, often concentrating on women juggling career and family...
  
  , (Oct 1, 1893-Mar 18, 1978)
• Kathleen Baldwin
  Kathleen Baldwin (novelist)
  Kathleen Baldwin is an American writer of comic romance novels set in the Regency period.-Biography:Kathleen Baldwin was born and raised in Arizona, and moved 14 times before high school. The constant moving allowed her to meet many different people from many different backgrounds and areas...
  
  
• Donna Ball
  Donna Ball
  Donna Ball is an American writer of over 90 novels, mainly romance novels since 1982, she also signed her novels as Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady.-Biography:Donna Ball born in 1951 in the United States...
  
  , (1951-)
• Mary Balogh
  Mary Balogh
  Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian historical romance novelist.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Leanne Banks
  Leanne Banks
  Leanne Banks is an award-winning American writer of over 50 romance novels since 1991.-Biography:Leanne Banks was born on May 14, 1959 in Roanoke, Virginia, United States....
  
  , (May 14-)
• Jill Barnett
  Jill Barnett
  Jill Barnett is a best-selling American author of women's fiction and romance novels.In 1988, Jill Barnett sold her first novel, The Heart's Haven, to Pocket Books. It was published two years later, and spent three weeks on the bestseller list. She continued to write for Pocket, and by the time...
  
  
• Jean Barrett
  Jean Barrett
  Jean Barrett is a former American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League. He graduated W. T. White High School in Dallas, Texas, and played college football at Tulsa University....
  
  
• Susan Barrie
• Allie Bates
  Allie Bates
  Allie Bates is an American award-winning short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance editor.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jane Beaufort
• Lisette Belisle
• Marguerite Bell
• Sally Beauman
  Sally Beauman
  Sally Beauman is a British author best known for her Rebecca sequel, Rebecca's Tale.She was educated at Redland High School and Girton College, Cambridge....
  
  , (1944-)
• Jayne Bentley, (Mar 28, 1948-)
• Ariel Berk, (Apr 7-)
• Elizabeth Bevarly
  Elizabeth Bevarly
  Elizabeth Bevarly is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1989. She is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jo Beverley
  Jo Beverley
  Jo Beverley, née Mary Josephine Dunn is a prolific British-Canadian writer of popular historical romance novels....
  
  , (Sep 22, 1947-)
• Helen Bianchin
  Helen Bianchin
  Helen Bianchin is a popular Australian writer of over 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1975.-Biography:...
  
  , (Feb 20-)
• Janet Bieber
• Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Educated at University College Dublin, she worked as a teacher then a journalist at The Irish Times and later became a writer of novels and short stories.Many of her novels are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between...
  
  , (May 28, 1940-)
• Charlotte Bingham
  Charlotte Bingham
  Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical novels and has also written for many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs, Play for Today and Robin's Nest...
  
  , (Jun 29, 1942-)
• Jessica Bird (also known as J. R. Ward)
• Claudia Bishop
  Jane Feather
  Jane Feather is a popular British-American writer of historical romance novels. In 1984 she wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop...
  
  , (1945-)
• Jackie Black
• Jenna Black
  Jenna Black
  Jennifer Bellak is an American author of paranormal romance novels, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy novels under the pen name Jenna Black. She published one novel under her married name, Jennifer Barlow and at least two short stories under her maiden name.-Biography:Jenna Black was raised in...
  
  
• Terri Blackstock
  Terri Blackstock
  Terri Blackstock is a Christian fiction writer. Blackstock is known for her numerous published novels spanning across genre from Christian romances to Christian mystery/suspense. Terri Blackstock’s books have sold six million copies worldwide. Her suspense novels often grab a spot on the ECPA and...
  
  , (Dec 7, 1975-)
• Andrea Blake
• Ally Blake
  Ally Blake
  -Biography:Blake was born in a small town in Outback Queensland, Australia. She graduated from St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane, duxing Theatre. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Queensland, with a double English major....
  
  
• Jennifer Blake, (1942-)
• Emma Blair
• Diana Blayne, (Dec 11, 1946-)
• Annalee Blysse
  Annalee Blysse
  Annalee Blysse is an American paranormal romance novelist. Born and raised in Alaska, she recently moved to Nevada.She writes romances, and erotic romance, especially futuristic and paranormal.-Novels :...
  
  
• Pat Booth
  Pat Booth
  Pat, Lady Lowe , also known as Pat Booth, was an English model, photographer and author of romantic fiction....
  
  
• Donna Boyd, (1951-)
• Carla Bracale
• Barbara Taylor Bradford
  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE is an English novelist, and one of the world's most beloved storytellers. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide. To date, she has written 27 novels -- all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic...
  
  , (May 10, 1933-)
• Celeste Bradley
  Celeste Bradley
  -The Liar's Club:*The Pretender *The Impostor *The Spy *The Charmer *The Rogue -The Royal Four:*To Wed a Scandalous Spy *Surrender to a Wicked Spy *One Night with a Spy...
  
  
• Taylor Brady, (1951-)
• Rita Bradshaw, (1950-)
• Kylie Brant
  Kylie Brant
  Kylie Brant is an American author of contemporary romantic suspense novels.Brant claims she began writing in 1990 because her favorite authors couldn't write fast enough to keep her in reading material. She submitted her finished manuscript to Silhouette Books in New York City, but it was her...
  
  
• Kate Bridges
  Kate Bridges
  Kate Bridges is a Canadian author.Bridges' books have been nominated for several publishing awards, including Best Western of the Year by Romantic Times magazine for The Surgeon and Best Hero of the Year for The Engagement...
  
  
• Laurey Bright, (1939-)
• P.A. Brisco, (Jul 1, 1927-Dec 7, 2006)
• Patty Brisco, (Jul 1, 1927-Dec 7, 2006)
• Leigh Bristol, (1951-)
• Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick
  Annette Broadrick is an United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984.-Biography:Broadrick was born on November 26, 1938 and raised as an only child for sixteen years, until her younger sister, Derralee, was born. Two years after that, as soon as she was graduated from high school in...
  
  , (Nov 26, 1940-)
• Anne Brock
• Suzanne Brockmann
  Suzanne Brockmann
  Suzanne Brockmann is an award-winning American romantic fiction writer. She lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, Ed Gaffney, and their two children, Melanie and Jason...
  
  
• Connie Brockway
  Connie Brockway
  Connie Brockway is a best-selling American author of seventeen historical and contemporary romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  , (Dec 16, 1954-)
• Anne Brontë
  Anne Brontë
  Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a...
  
  , (Jan 17, 1820-May 28, 1849)
• Charlotte Brontë
  Charlotte Brontë
  Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards...
  
  , (Apr 21, 1816-Mar 31, 1855)
• Emily Brontë
  Emily Brontë
  Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
  
  , (Jul 30, 1818-Dec 19, 1848)
• Helen Brooks
  Helen Brooks
  Rita Bradshaw is a British romance novelist, she wrote historical romances as her real name and under the pseudonym Helen Brooks contemporany romances at Mills & Boon since 1992.-Biography:...
  
  , (1950-)
• Sandra Brown
  Sandra Brown
  Sandra Lynn Brown is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire....
  
  , (Mar 12, 1948-)
• Amanda Browning
  Amanda Browning
  Amanda Browning is an English writer of over 25 romance novels since 1987.-Biography:Amanda Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex....
  
  
• Diana Browning
  Diana Browning
  Florence Hersham is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels since 1977, well-known as Diana Haviland, she also wrote a novel as Diana Browning...
  
  
• Dixie Browning
  Dixie Browning
  Dixie Browning, née Burrus is an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also has published under the pen name Zoe Dozier, and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams, she writes historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams.-Biography:Dixie Burrus was born in 1930 on North...
  
  , (Sep 9, 1930-)
• Niobia Bryant
  Niobia Bryant
  Niobia Bryant is an African-American novelist of both romance and mainstream fiction. She also writes Urban fiction as Meesha Mink and Young Adult fiction as Simone Bryant.-Biography:...
  
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• Elizabeth Buchan
  Elizabeth Buchan
  Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker is a British writer since 1985, specializing in romance novels...
  
  
• Nancy Buckingham
  Nancy Buckingham
  Nancy Joyce Buckingham is a British co-writer of gothic and romance novels in collaboration with her husband, John Sawyer . They wrote novels under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham, and under the pseudonyms Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John and Hilary London...
  
  
• Mary Burchell
• Rose Burghley
• Eleanor Burford, (Sep 1, 1906-Jan 18, 1993)
• Pamela Burford
  Pamela Burford
  Pamela Burford is an American novelist. She is an award-winning author of 14 contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, and she is the twin sister of the author Patricia Ryan...
  
  , (Aug 9, 1954-)
• Nicole Burnham
• Beatrice Burton
  Beatrice Burton
  Beatrice Burton , also known as Beatrice Burton Morgan, was a writer of romance fiction popular over the early decades of the twentieth century.-Career:Very little about her life is known...
  
  
• Rebecca Burton
  Rebecca Burton
  Rebecca Brown Burton is a popular United States writer of over 75 romance novels under her married name Rebecca Burton, under her complete name Rebecca Brown Burton, and as Rebecca Winters for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.-Biography:Born on February 14, 1940 in in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A...
  
  , (Feb 14, 1940-)
• Shirlee Busbee
  Shirlee Busbee
  Shirlee Elaine Busbee is an American writer of romance novels since 1977.-Biography:Busbee grew up with two sisters and two brothers. She attended high school in Kentra, Morocco and when she returned to California, went to Burbank Business College in Santa Rosa...
  
  , (1941-)
• Adrienne Bryd

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• Meg Cabot
  Meg Cabot
  Meg Cabot is anAmerican author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot...
  
  , (Feb 1, 1967-)
• Linda Cajio
  Linda Cajio
  Linda Cajio was a U.S. writer of over 30 romance novels.-Single novels:*All Is Fair... *Hard Habit to Break *Double Dealing *Silk on the Skin *Strictly Business...
  
  
• Hall Caine
  Hall Caine
  Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE , usually known as Hall Caine, was a Manx author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular, and at the peak of his success his novels outsold those of his...
  
  , (May 14, 1853-Aug 31, 1931)
• Candace Camp
  Candace Camp
  Candace Pauline Camp is a best-selling American writer of romance novels. She has also published under the pen names Lisa Gregory, Sharon Stephens, Kristin James and under her real name Candace Camp....
  
  , (May 23, 1949-)
• Bethany Campbell
  Bethany Campbell
  Bethany Campbell and Lisa Harris are pen-names of Sally McCluskey, an American writer of romance novels.-Biography:Sally McCluskey was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska. She received a B.A. from Wayne State Teachers College, an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D...
  
  
• Marsha Canham
  Marsha Canham
  Marsha Canham is a Canadian writer of historical, romance novels since 1984. She has won two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards.-Biography:Marsha Canham resides in Toronto...
  
  
• Ann Carberry, (Sep 28, 1951-)
• Donna Carlisle, (1951-)
• Liz Carlyle
  Liz Carlyle
  Liz Carlyle is an American author, primarily of historical romance novels.-Biography:Carlyle attended college on a Scripps Howard writing scholarship and majored in journalism. She spent much of her career working in Human Resources and Labor Relations in the chemical and automotive industries...
  
  
• Teresa Carpenter
  Teresa Carpenter
  Teresa Carpenter is a Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author. She was born in Independence, Missouri, and lives with her husband Steven Levy in New York's Greenwich Village.-Awards:...
  
  
• Philippa Carr, (Sep 1, 1906-Aug 18, 1993)
• Robyn Carr
  Robyn Carr
  Robyn Carr is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five romance novels.-Biography:Carr never intended to become a writer. She studied nursing in college. She married her high school sweetheart just before he left for the US Air Force as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War...
  
  
• Sherry Carr (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sara Chance, and Sydney Ann Clary)
• Tori Carrington
  Tori Carrington
  Tori Carrington is the pen name by the husband-wife writing team formed by Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni , they are a popular United States writer of over 28 romance novels since 1998.-Biography:Tony Karayianni was born in Smila, Greece and he grew up in Athens. He immigrated to...
  
  
• Susan Carroll
  Susan Carroll
  Susan Coppula is an American writer of romance novels under her pen names, Susan Carroll and Serena Richards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barbara Cartland
  Barbara Cartland
  Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ , was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century...
  
  , (Jul 9, 1901-May 21, 2000)
• Rosemary Carter
  Rosemary Carter
  Rosemary Carter was a popular writer of 37 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1975 to 2000.-Single novels:*Land of the Flamenco *Man of the World *Forests of the Dragon *Adam's Bride *Sweet Imposter *Bush Doctor...
  
  
• Zoe Cass (b. 1916) (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
• Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy
  Carla Cassidy, née Carla Bracale is a popular American writer of over 80 romance novels since 1988, she start signed her novels as Carla Bracale , and now she signs her novels as Carla Cassidy...
  
  
• Jayne Castle, (Mar 28, 1948-)
• Jackie Casto
• Clare Cavendish
  Clare Cavendish
  Clare Cavendish was a British writer of romance novels from 1964 to 1982.She was the tenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association.-Single novels:*Doctor in Trouble *Doctor's Choice *Hospital in Danger...
  
  
• Diane Chamberlain
  Diane Chamberlain
  Diane Chamberlain is an American author of adult fiction.Her first novel , Private Relations, was started while she was waiting in a doctor’s office...
  
  
• Karen Chance
  Karen Chance
  Karen Chance is an urban fantasy novelist. She grew up in Orlando, Florida. She has lived in France, Great Britain, Hong Kong and New Orleans, where she has taught history...
  
  
• Sara Chance (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary)
• Lauryn Chandler
  Lauryn Chandler
  Lauryn Chandler is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She has also written under the pseudonym Wendy Warren.Chandler has twice been the recipient of the highest honor given to romance novelists, the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award...
  
  
• Anita Charles
• Marie Charles, (Mar 28-)
• Loretta Chase
  Loretta Chase
  Loretta Chase, née Loretta Lynda Chekani is an American writer of romance novels since 1987.-Biography:Born Loretta Lynda Chekani in 1949, she attended New England public schools and she obtained a B.A. in the Clark University....
  
  , (1949-)
• Marion Chesney
  Marion Chesney
  Marion Chesney is a popular and prolific author. She has written numerous successful historical romance novels under her own name, including the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling series. Using the pseudonym M. C...
  
  , (1936-)
• Denise Chesterton, (1897–1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
• Maureen Child
  Maureen Child
  Maureen Child is an American writer of over 50 romance novels since 1990. She has written under the pen names Ann Carberry, Sara Hart and Kathleen Kane.-Biography:...
  
  , (Sep 28, 1951-)
• Lisa Childs
  Lisa Childs
  Lisa Childs is an American author. She grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wrote the highly acclaimed novel Taking back Mary Ellen Black.- Novels :*Return of the Lawman *Sarah's Secrets *Taking Back Mary Ellen Black...
  
  
• Sue Civil-Brown
  Sue Civil-Brown
  Susan Civil-Brown is an American author of romance novels with a humorous twist. She is best known under the pseudonym Rachel Lee. Her books include romances, romantic suspense and a series of espionage thrillers .Civil-Brown's first book was published in 1991...
  
  
• Daphne Clair
  Daphne Clair
  Daphne Clair de Jong is a popular New Zealand writer of over 75 romance novels in Mills & Boon and other publishers since 1977 as Daphne Clair and Daphne de Jong, and under the pseudonyms Laurey Bright, Clair Lorel, and Clarissa Garland, and she also publishes poetry and articles.Daphne Clair de...
  
  , (1939-)
• Sydney Ann Clary (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sara Chance)
• Rita Clay
• Margaret Major Cleaves, (Feb 13-)
• Wendy Coakley-Thompson
  Wendy Coakley-Thompson
  Wendy Coakley-Thompson , is a mainstream fiction author. Coakley-Thompson's work is part of emerging millennial contemporary African American literature...
  
  , (Dec 27, 1966-)
• Sheila Coates, (1937-Oct 8, 2000)
• Nicole Cody
• Jan Coffey
  Jan Coffey
  Jan Coffey is a pen name for the United States marriage of writers formed by James A. McGoldrick and Nikoo K. Coffey McGoldrick. They also write historical-romance novels as May McGoldrick and other suspense-romance novels as Nicole Cody. As Nikoo McGoldrick & James A. McGoldrick, they also wrote...
  
  
• Elaine Coffman
  Elaine Coffman
  Barbara Elaine Gunter Coffman is an American writer of both historical romance and suspense, writing as Elaine Coffman.-Biography:...
  
  , (Jun 19, 1942-)
• Jackie Collins
  Jackie Collins
  Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins is an English novelist and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. She has written 28 novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 400 million copies and have been...
  
  , (Oct 4, 1937-)
• Phoebe Conn
  Phoebe Conn
  Phoebe Conn is the maiden name and pseudonym of Phoebe Jane Conn, a best-selling American author of over thirty romance novels. She has also published one novel under the pseudonym Cinammon Burke.-Biography:...
  
  , (1941-)
• Helen Conrad
  Helen Conrad
  Helen Conrad is a best-selling American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1982. She has also written under the names Jena Hunt and Raye Morgan.-Biography:...
  
  , (Apr 11-)
• Carla Cook
• Kris Cook
  Kris Cook
  -Biography:Kris Cook lives in the DFW area and is a member of the North Texas Romance Writers of America, a local chapter of the Romance Writers of America...
  
  
• Catherine Cookson
  Catherine Cookson
  Dame Catherine Cookson DBE was a British author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers...
  
  , (Jun 27, 1906-Jun 11, 1998)
• Jilly Cooper
  Jilly Cooper
  Jilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.-Early life:Jilly Sallitt was born in Hornchurch,...
  
  , (Feb 21, 1937-)
• Lori Copeland
  Lori Copeland
  Lori Copeland is an American author of over 95 novels.-Biography:Lori Copeland had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was already forty years old...
  
  , (Jun 12-)
• Susan Coppula
• Catherine Coulter
  Catherine Coulter
  Catherine Coulter is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances who currently resides in Northern California with her husband Anton Pogany.-Early years:...
  
   (Dec 26, 1942-)
• Caroline Courtney
• Josephine Cox
  Josephine Cox
  Josephine Cox, born Blackburn, Lancashire in 1941, is an English author. Her books are frequently best sellers and the UK Public Lending Rights figures often list her in the top three borrowed authors.She also writes under the name of Jane Brindle....
  
  , (1938-)
• Sara Craven
  Sara Craven
  Sara Craven, is the pseudonym used by Anne Ashurst, née Bushell is a popular British author of over 80 romance novels. Her novels have been published by Mills & Boon ever since 1975...
  
  , (1938-)
• Jasmine Cresswell
  Jasmine Cresswell
  Jasmine Rosemary Cresswell is a best-selling author of over 50 romance novels as Jasmine Cresswell and Jasmine Craig.-Biography:...
  
  , (1941-)
• Jill Christian (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
• Millie Criswell
  Millie Criswell
  Millie Criswell is a best-selling author of over twenty-five romance novels.Criswell began writing shortly before her fortieth birthday, after decades of reading romances. She has since published over twenty-five novels, and is the lead author for the new Harlequin Flipside line.Criswell and her...
  
  , (Mar 26-)
• Linda Crockett
  Linda Crockett
  Linda Crockett, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers. Linda Crockett published over a dozen books which were translated into as many languages, under the pen names Linda Crockett, Linda Crockett Gray,...
  
  
• Tanya Anne Crosby
  Tanya Anne Crosby
  Tanya Anne Crosby is an American writer of romance novels. A New York Times bestselling author, she is a five-time nominee for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award...
  
  , (Jun 5-)
• Jennifer Crusie
  Jennifer Crusie
  Jennifer Crusie is a pseudonym for Jennifer Smith, a bestselling and award winning author of contemporary romance novels. She has written over 15 novels, which have been published in 20 countries.-Biography:...
  
  
• Katy Currie, (Dec 11, 1946-)

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• Janet Dailey
  Janet Dailey
  Janet Anne Haradon Dailey is an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey . Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold over 300 million copies worldwide....
  
  , (May 21, 1944-)
• Claudia Dain
  Claudia Dain
  Claudia Dain is an American author of romance novels. She is a two-time Rita finalist, and a USA Today Bestselling author.-Regency:* The Courtesan's Daughter* The Courtesan's Secret* Wish List * Private Places ...
  
  
• Ruth Jean Dale
  Ruth Jean Dale
  Betty Lee Duran was a popular U.S. writer of romance novels. She started writing as Ruth Jean Dale, and now, she writes as Lee Duran....
  
  , (1942-)
• Jacquie D'Alessandro
  Jacquie D'Alessandro
  -Biography:Jacquie D'Alessandro grew up in Long Island, New York . After she graduated she married her husband Joe. They have a son, Christopher aka “Junior” and known by his friends at UGA as "Garmin," and currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia....
  
  
• Cami Dalton
  Cami Dalton
  Cami Dalton is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Dalton's debut novel, Her Private Dancer, was published by Harlequiin's Temptation line of category romances in April 2004...
  
  
• Margot Dalton
  Margot Dalton
  Margot Dalton is a pseudonym used by Phyllis Strobell to write contemporary romance novels.Dalton has been nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Fourth Horseman...
  
  
• Barbara Daly
  Barbara Daly
  Barbara Daly is an American author of romance novels. She won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in 2002 for Best Short Contemporary Romance for her novel A Long Hot Christmas. She has also been twice nominated by Romantic Times for Reviewers' Choice Awards, for A Long Hot Christmas and...
  
  
• Jordan Dane
  Jordan Dane
  Jordan Dane is a romantic thriller Young-adult fiction novelist. She sold her first three-book series in auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006 and another three-book thriller series in May 2007...
  
  , (1953-)
• Lacey Dancer
  Lacey Dancer
  Lacey Dancer is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She has also written under the pen names Sara Chance, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary....
  
  
• B.J. Daniels
• Emma Darcy
  Emma Darcy
  Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband-wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan , they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, in the Emma Darcy Pseudonym's 10th anniversary, They created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish...
  
  , (November 28-)
• Lilian Darcy
  Lilian Darcy
  Lilian Darcy is popular Australian writer of over 75 medical romance novels since 1981.-Biography:Lilian Darcy was born on 14 February in Australia. She grew up reading the books by L.M. Montgomery...
  
  , (February 14-)
• Iris Rainer Dart
  Iris Rainer Dart
  Iris Rainer Dart is an American author and playwright for television and the stage. Her most notable novel is Beaches, which was made into a 1988 film of the same name...
  
  
• Trisha David
• Carolyn Davidson
  Carolyn Davidson
  Carolyn Davidson is a graphic designer best known as the creator of the Nike "swoosh".Davidson designed the swoosh in 1971 while a graphic design student at Portland State University. Phil Knight, who was teaching an accounting class at the university, noticed Davidson working on an assignment, and...
  
  
• MaryJanice Davidson
  MaryJanice Davidson
  MaryJanice Davidson is an American author who writes mostly paranormal romance, but also young adult literature and non-fiction....
  
  
• Dyanne Davis
• Geralyn Dawson
  Geralyn Dawson
  Geralyn Dawson is a USA Today bestselling author of romance novels. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and has written fifteen novels and contributed two novellas to anthologies, one of which was on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 1996 her novel The Wedding Raffle was named as one...
  
  
• Sylvia Day
  Sylvia Day
  Sylvia June Day is an American writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms S. J. Day and Livia Dare.Publishers Marketplace reports that Day's trilogy "in which angels, vampires, and lycans are all vying for power" went to auction in early 2010. New American Library was the winning...
  
  , (March 11, 1973-)
• Daphne de Jong, (1939-)
• Kit Dealtry, (1872–1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
• Connie Deka
• Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  , (August 9, 1945-)
• Jude Deveraux
  Jude Deveraux
  Jude Deveraux is an American Romance novel author who is well-known for her historical romances. As of 2010, 36 of her novels had been on The New York Times Best Seller list according to Forbes, including among the dozens such titles as 2009's Lavender Morning and Days of Gold...
  
  , (September 20, 1947-)
• Jacqueline Diamond, (1949-)
• Christina Dodd
  Christina Dodd
  Christina Dodd is a best-selling American author ofromance novels.-Biography:Dodd is the youngest of three daughters whose father died before she was born. Although her mother had been a housewife with few job skills, after Dodd's birth she found a job and worked diligently to support her children...
  
  
• Robyn Donald
  Robyn Donald
  Robyn Donald is a prolific writer of romance novels from New Zealand.She writes for the English Mills and Boon romance series, and all her books have also been reedited under Harlequin Enterprises Limited series....
  
  , (1940-)
• Sara Donati, (1956-)
• Jane Donnelly
  Jane Donnelly
  Jane Donnelly was a popular writer of over 60 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1965 to 2000.-Single novels:*Don't Look Back *A Man Apart *Don't Walk Alone *This Hell Called Love *Shadows from the Sea...
  
  
• Carole Nelson Douglas
  Carole Nelson Douglas
  Carole Nelson Douglas is an American writer. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler mysteries and the Midnight Louie mystery series....
  
  
• Billie Douglass, (August 9, 1945-)
• Zoe Dozier, (September 9, 1930-)
• Bonnie Drake, (August 9, 1945-)
• Shannon Drake, (March 15-)
• Jennifer Drew
• Daphne du Maurier
  Daphne du Maurier
  Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...
  
  , (May 13, 1907-April 19, 1989)
• Elizabeth Duke
• Judith Duncan
  Judith Duncan
  Judith Duncan is a popular author of romance novels published primarily by Harlequin Enterprises between 1983 and 2002. During the period when Duncan was actively publishing, she lived and worked in Alberta, Canada. She based many of her books in this region. She has been heavily involved in...
  
  
• Carola Dunn
  Carola Dunn
  Carola Dunn is an English-American writer. She began by writing historical romances but later switched to crime stories. Today she lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. The hero of her crime novels is the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, sometimes known as "Miss Daisy". Daisy's beau...
  
  , (November 14, 1946-)
• Lee Duran

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• Kathleen Eagle
  Kathleen Eagle
  Kathleen Eagle is an American author of over 40 romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Margot Early
  Margot Early
  Margot Early is an author of mass-market fiction. She has published more than twenty-five titles. Her work has been translated into eight languages and distributed in eighteen countries. Her father was electrical engineer James Early....
  
  , (June 6, 1964-)
• Mignon G. Eberhart
  Mignon G. Eberhart
  Mignon Good Eberhart was an American author of mystery novels. She had one of the longest careers among major American mystery writers.-Biography:...
  
  , (July 6, 1899-October 8, 1966)
• Dorothy Eden
  Dorothy Eden
  Dorothy Enid Eden was a novelist and short story writer. She was born on 3 April 1912 in Canterbury Plains, New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary before moving to England in 1954. She died of cancer in London on 4 March 1982.Eden was best known for her writings in...
  
  , (1912–1982)
• Rosemary Edghill
  Rosemary Edghill
  Rosemary Edghill is an American writer and editor, who has often used that pseudonym in place of her legal name, eluki bes shahar...
  
  , (1956-)
• Cassie Edwards
  Cassie Edwards
  Cassie Edwards is a best-selling American author of over 100 historical romance novels. She has been published by Dorchester Publishing, Signet Books, Kensington Publishing and Harlequin.-Biography :...
  
  
• Mary Tate Engels
  Mary Tate Engels
  Mary Tate Engels is an American writer of over 27 romance novels since 1982 as Tate McKenna and Mary Tate Engels. She has co-written 5 romance novels under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Vicki Lewis Thompson and two non-fiction books for Texas Tech University Press.Mary Tate...
  
  
• Suzanne Enoch
  Suzanne Enoch
  Suzanne Enoch is an American author of best-selling contemporary and historical Regency romance novels.Enoch began writing down her own stories when she was a child. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in English. Her first attempts at writing were in the...
  
  
• Lynn Erickson
  Lynn Erickson
  Lynn Erickson is the popular American pseudonym used by the writing team formed by Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen , they have written romance novels since 1980.-Biography:...
  
  
• Patricia Ernst, (July 1, 1927-December 7, 2006-)
• Leslie Esdaile
  Leslie Esdaile Banks
  Leslie Esdaile Banks was an American writer. She wrote in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction...
  
  , (December 11-)
• Rita Clay Estrada
  Rita Clay Estrada
  Rita Clay Estrada is an U.S. writer of romance novels as Rita Clay, Tira Lacy and Rita Clay Estrada, she also wrote non-fiction books about writing romance novels...
  
  
• Janet Evanovich
  Janet Evanovich
  Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to...
  
  , (April 22, 1943-)

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• Barbara Faith
  Barbara Faith
  Barbara Faith de Covarrubias , was an American writer of more than 40 romance novels as Barbara Faith from 1978 until the day of his death. She won a RITA Award in 1982.-Biography:...
  
  
• Colleen Faulkner
  Colleen Faulkner
  Colleen Faulkner is an American author of romance novels. In 1999 she was presented with the "Diamond Award" for literary excellence in the state of Delaware.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Jane Feather
  Jane Feather
  Jane Feather is a popular British-American writer of historical romance novels. In 1984 she wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop...
  
  , (1945-)
• Constance Fecher (1911–1995) (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
• Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan is an American romance-paranormal writer. She has published more than 26 novels, including five series, and numerous novellas since 1999.-Biography:...
  
  
• Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski is a popular and prolific American writer of over 150 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages...
  
  , (March 28-)
• Gina Ferris, (December 20-)
• Katie Fforde
  Katie Fforde
  Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming , is a British romance novelist since 1995.She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract...
  
  
• Sandra Field
  Sandra Field
  Jill MacLean is a Canadian writer of children's fiction book and under the pseudonym of Sandra Field, Jan MacLean and Jocelyn Haley a popular author of over 70 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1974....
  
  
• Fiona Finlay
• Liz Fielding
  Liz Fielding
  Liz Fielding is a popular British writer of over 50 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1992.-Biography:Liz Fielding was born on 1 June in Wales. Her mother taught to her to read....
  
  , (June 1-)
• Rebecca Flanders, (1951-)
• Cardine Fleming
• Caroline Fleming
• Gaelen Foley
  Gaelen Foley
  Gaelen Foley is an American writer of romance novels.-Personal life:Gaelen Foley was born on November 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and she has three sisters. She holds a B.A. in English literature with a minor in philosophy from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, New...
  
  
• Norrey Ford
  Norrey Ford
  Noreen Ford Dilcock was a British writer of romance novels from 1952 to 1977 under different pseudonyms: Norrey Ford, Jill Christian and Christian Walford....
  
   (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
• Helen Forrester
  Helen Forrester
  Helen Forrester, whose real name was June Bhatia was an English author known for her books about her early childhood in Liverpool during the Great Depression as well as several works of fiction....
  
  , (1919)
• Lori Foster
  Lori Foster
  Lori L. Foster is a best-selling American writer of over seventy romance novels as Lori Foster. She also writes Urban Fantasy novels using using her first and middle initials, L.L. Foster....
  
  , (November 14)
• Natalie Fox
  Natalie Fox
  Natalie Guilar, better known by her pen name Natalie Fox, was a popular writer of 26 romance novels from 1991 to 2002. In 1997 she won the Preston Citizens book of the year award for Passion With Intent, and since then her books have been translated into many languages.- Single novels :*Dreams Are...
  
  
• Jacqueline Frank
• Thea Frederick, (April 7)
• Ashley French

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• Diana Gabaldon
  Diana Gabaldon
  Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
  
  , (January 11, 1952-)
• Patricia Gaffney
  Patricia Gaffney
  Patricia Gaffney is an American writer of romance novels and women's fiction novels.-Biography:Patricia Gaffney was born on December 27 in Tampa, Florida United States. She is the daughter of Joem and Jim Gaffney. She and her brother, Mike, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.Patricia graduated from...
  
  
• Abby Gaines
  Abby Gaines
  -Biography:Gaines wrote her first romance novel as a teenager and submitted it to Mills and Boon for publication; the company rejected it. After her graduation from high school she attended university, where she studied French, German, Japanese and Spanish for a B.A.. Following university, she...
  
  
• Shana Galen
  Shane Bolks
  Shane Bolks AKA Shana Galen is an American author of contemporary fiction and historical romance novels.-Biography:...
  
   (AKA Shane Bolks
  Shane Bolks
  Shane Bolks AKA Shana Galen is an American author of contemporary fiction and historical romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  )
• Rita Gallagher
  Rita Gallagher
  Rita Gallagher a founding member of the Romance Writers of America, was a noted writing instructor of romance novels. She also wrote three romance novels from 1982 to 1986. She is the mother of the writer Rita Clay Estrada.-Biography:...
  
  , (-2004)
• Clarissa Garland, (1939-)
• Dorothy Garlock
  Dorothy Garlock
  Dorothy Garlock is a best-selling American author of over 50 historical romance novels, most of them set in the American West. She has also written under the pen names Johanna Phillips, Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Glenn.-Biography:Dorothy Garlock was born on June 22, 1942 in Texas, but spent...
  
  , (1942-)
• Julie Garwood
  Julie Garwood
  Julie Garwood is an American writer of over twenty-five romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres. Over thirty million copies of her books are in print, and she has had at least 15 New York Times Bestsellers...
  
  , (1946-)
• Diane Gaston
  Diane Gaston
  Diane Gaston is an American author of Regency romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Diane Perkins.Gaston won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2006 for Best Regency Romance for her novel A Reputable Rake...
  
   (also known as Diane Perkins)
• Tess Gerritsen
  Tess Gerritsen
  Tess Gerritsen, M.D., is a Chinese-American novelist and retired physician. Her first name is really Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.-Early life:...
  
  , (June 1953-)
• Rachel Gibson
  Rachel Gibson (writer)
  Rachel Gibson is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:With the publication of her first novel in 1998, Simply Irresistible, Gibson became and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author...
  
  
• Seressia Glass
• Amanda Glass, (March 28, 1948)
• Ruth Glick
  Ruth Glick
  Ruth Glick, née Burtnick is a USA Today best-selling US writer of healthy cookbooks, romance and young adult novels...
  
  , (1942-)
• Elinor Glyn
  Elinor Glyn
  Elinor Glyn , born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She popularized the concept It...
  
  , (October 17, 1864-September 23, 1943)
• Kristi Gold
  Kristi Gold
  Kristi Gold is an American writer of over 25 romance novels since 2000.-Biography:Kristi Gold decided at the age of twenty to write her first book. In 2000 her first book was published. Gold is married to a physician, and they have three children...
  
  
• Emma Goldrick
  Emma Goldrick
  Emma Goldrick was the pseudonym used by the married writing team formed by Emma Elizabeth Jean Sutcliffe and Robert N. Goldrick . Under this name they wrote 41 romance novels published by Mills & Boon between 1983 and 1996...
  
  , (February 7-)
• Sergeanne Golon, (1921-)
• Diana Gordon, (November 21, 1919-October 3, 2006)
• Lucy Gordon
• Judith Gould
  Judith Gould
  Judith Gould is a fictional American writer of romance novels, and is the pseudonym used by co-authors: Nicholas Peter "Nick" Bienes and Rhea Gallaher, who are actually both men. Gould is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into 22 languages.In addition to being...
  
  
• Iris Gower
  Iris Gower
  Iris Davies was a novelist, noted for her many historical romances, most of which are set in the British seaport of Swansea and the Gower Peninsula, from which she took her nom-de-plume.-Biography:...
  
  
• Heather Graham, (March 15-)
• Lynne Graham
  Lynne Graham
  Lynne Graham is a popular Northern Irish author of over 60 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1987.-Biography:...
  
  , (July 30-)
• Brandy Grandberg
• Jeanne Grant
• Susan Grant
  Susan Grant
  Susan Grant is a pilot and New York Times bestselling author best known for combining science fiction with romance. Grant graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1982, the third class to include women, and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. She went on to...
  
  
• Vanessa Grant
  Vanessa Grant
  Vanessa Grant is a Canadian writer of romance novels, having had 29 published from 1985 to 2001. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and she has over 10 million books in print....
  
  
• Patricia Grasso
  Patricia Grasso
  Patricia H. Grasso is an American writer of romance novels.She is a bestselling author who has won numerous recognitions, including a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, a Romantic Times KISS Award, and a National Readers’ Choice Award.-Biography:Patricia H. Grasso was born in Massachusetts,...
  
  
• Harriet Gray
• Jennifer Greene
• Tilly Greene
  Tilly Greene
  -Biography:Born in Southern California, Greene eventually moved to North Yorkshire in England to further her education, and now resides on the New Jersey....
  
  
• Lisa Gregory, (May 23, 1949-)
• C. Groom, (1872–1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
• Clarice Groom, (1872–1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
• Kathleen Clarice Groom
  Kathleen Clarice Groom
  Kathleen Clarice Groom, née Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell . She wrote short stories and novels under different pseudonyms: Kit Dealtry, C. Groom, Mrs...
  
  , (1872–1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
• Mrs. Sydney Groom, (1872–1954) (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
• Annie Groves, (November 24, 1946-)

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• Jocelyn Haley
• Steffie Hall
• Diana Hamilton
  Diana Hamilton
  Diana Hamilton was a popular British writer of 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1986.-Biography:Diana Hamilton was born in an English town.At 18, she studied to art college, where she met Peter...
  
  
• Hervey Hamilton, (1897–1985) (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
• Anne Hampson
  Anne Hampson
  Anne Hampson was a British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998. She published historical romance novels under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. Although she retired in 1998, in 2005 she published two romance and a crime novel...
  
  
• Lori Handeland
  Lori Handeland
  Lori Handeland is an American author of romance novels. She has twice won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.- Biography :Handeland has wanted to be a writer since she was 10 years old. As an adult, she wrote her first book in a two-year span. It was chosen for publication.Handeland has...
  
  
• Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barbara Hannay
  Barbara Hannay
  -Biography:Hannay has long been interested in writing. When she joined the Brownies as a child, she earned her first proficiency badge in writing. Throughout her school years, Hannay continued to write, especially short stories and poetry, but never attempted to publish any of her work. As an...
  
  
• Elizabeth Habersham
• Sarah Hardesty
• Laura Hardy, (1937-October 8, 2000)
• Nina Harrington
• Karen Harper
  Karen Harper
  Karen Harper is an historical fiction and contemporary fiction author. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.-Writing career:...
  
  
• Madeline Harper
  Madeline Harper
  Madeline Harper was one pseudonym used by the United States writing team formed by Madeline Porter and Shannon Harper. They have been writing since 1977, when their first book, a Gothic romance, was published as Elizabeth Habersham...
  
  
• Lisa Harris
• Elizabeth Harrison
  Elizabeth Harrison (writer)
  Elizabeth Harrison was a British writer of romance novels from 1965 to 1995, she specialized in medical romances, because she was a medical secretary....
  
  
• Jessica Hart
  Jessica Hart
  Jessica Hart is a popular British writer of over 45 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1991.-Biography:Jessica Hart was born in Cameroon, where her mother continues living. She has traveled by Australian Outback, Indonesia, Belize, Cameroon, Algeria and Afghanistan.She published her first book...
  
  
• Sarah Hart
  Maureen Child
  Maureen Child is an American writer of over 50 romance novels since 1990. She has written under the pen names Ann Carberry, Sara Hart and Kathleen Kane.-Biography:...
  
  
• Caroline Harvey
• Kathryn Harvey
• Diana Haviland
• Karen Hawkins
  Karen Hawkins
  Karen Hawkins is a best-selling American author of sixteen historical romance novels. Her novels are known for their humor.-Biography:...
  
  
• Constance Heaven
  Constance Heaven
  Constance Heaven, née Constance Fecher was a British writer of romance novels from 1963 to 1995, under her maiden name, her married name and under the pseudonym Christina Merlin...
  
   (1911–1995) (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
• Shirl Henke
  Shirl Henke
  Shirl Henke is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has eclectic tastes and has written historical, contemporary, western, and regency-themed books. She also writes mystery novels using the pen name Alexa Hunt...
  
  
• Virginia Henley
  Virginia Henley
  Virginia Henley, née Virginia Syddall , is a British successful writer of historical-romance novels. She is well-known for her Medieval, Renaissance and other period piece romance novels.- Biography :...
  
  
• Ann Herendeen
  Ann Herendeen
  Ann Herendeen is an American author of popular fiction. A native New Yorker and lifelong Brooklyn resident, Herendeen holds a degree in English from Princeton University....
  
  
• Georgette Heyer
  Georgette Heyer
  Georgette Heyer was a British historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer...
  
  , (1902–1974)
• Brenda Hiatt
  Brenda Hiatt
  Brenda Hiatt is an author of romantic historical novels. She has authored and published 15 such novels over a writing career that started in 1988.- Biography :...
  
  
• Lydia Hitchcock
• Grace Livingston Hill
  Grace Livingston Hill
  Grace Livingston Hill was born in Wellsville, New York on April 16, 1865 to Presbyterian minister Charles Montgomery Livingston and his wife, Marcia Macdonald Livingston. Both of her parents were writers, as was Hill's aunt Isabella Macdonald Alden. Hill was an early 20th century novelist and...
  
  
• Tami Hoag
  Tami Hoag
  Tami Hoag is an American novelist, best known for her work in the romance and thriller genres. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kate Hoffmann
  Kate Hoffmann
  Peggy Hoffmann is an American writer of over 45 romance novels since 1993 as Kate Hoffmann. She lives in southeastern Wisconsin.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joan Hohl
  Joan Hohl
  Joan Hohl is a popular U.S.American writer of over 60 romance novels since 1980. She also signed her novels as Paula Roberts and Amii Lorin.-Biography:Joan Hohl was born June 13, 1935 in United States...
  
  
• Sheila Holland, (1937-October 8, 2000)
• Emma Holly
  Emma Holly
  Emma Holly is American author who specializes in writing erotica-romance novels, often with a focus on BDSM. She has written over twenty books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.-Biography:Emma Holly was born in New Jersey and raised...
  
  
• Kate Holmes
  Anne Holmberg
  Anne Holmberg , is an American writer of historical romance novels such as Anne Avery and contemporary romance novels as Kate Holmes. She also signed a novel as Anne Woodard.-Biography:...
  
  
• Victoria Holt (also known as Eleanor Hibbert
  Eleanor Hibbert
  Eleanor Hibbert was a British author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate...
  
  , Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr), (1906–1993)
• Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper
  Kay Hooper is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning American author of more than 60 books.-Biography:Kay Hooper was born on an Air Force base in California, where her father was stationed. The family soon moved back to North Carolina, where Hooper was raised with her younger brother and...
  
  
• Linda Howard
  Linda Howard
  Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer, she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for...
  
   (also known as Linda S. Howington)
• Hannah Howell
  Hannah Howell
  Hannah Dustin Howell is a best-selling American author of over 40 historical romance novels. Many of her novels are set in medieval Scotland...
  
  
• Elizabeth Hoyt
  Elizabeth Hoyt
  Elizabeth Hoyt is a bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. She now lives in central Illinois with her husband, two children, and three dogs.-The Princess trilogy:...
  
  
• Crystal Hubbard
• Anna Hudson
• Callie Hugher
• Cally Hughes
• Charlotte Hughes
  Charlotte Hughes
  Charlotte Marion Hughes, née Milburn is the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom, or in England at 115 years 228 days, despite longevity myths such as that of Thomas Parr. She was a schoolteacher from the age of 13, and married in 1940 at age 63, after retiring...
  
  
• Karen Hughes
• Jena Hunt
• Jillian Hunter
  Jillian Hunter
  Jillian Hunter is an American author of historical romance novels.-Awards:*1995 - Romantic Times Award Nominee for Glenlyon's Bride*1997 - Romantic Times Award Nominee for Fairy Tale...
  
  
• Jackie Hyman

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• Brenda Jackson
  Brenda Jackson
  Brenda Jackson is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach the USAToday Bestseller list.-Biography:Brenda Jackson was...
  
  
• Lisa Jackson
• Anna Jacobs
  Anna Jacobs
  Anna Jacobs is an English novelist.Anna grew up in Lancashire, England, before emigrating in 1973 to Australia. She has published historical sagas and romances, modern novels and SF/F...
  
  
• Michele Jaffe
  Michele Jaffe
  Michele Jaffe , is an American writer. She has authored novels in several genres, including historical romance, suspense thrillers, and novels for Young Adults.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Anna James
  Madeline Harper
  Madeline Harper was one pseudonym used by the United States writing team formed by Madeline Porter and Shannon Harper. They have been writing since 1977, when their first book, a Gothic romance, was published as Elizabeth Habersham...
  
  
• Eloisa James
• Julie James
  Julie James
  Julie James AM is a Welsh Labour politician, who has represented the constituency of Swansea West since the National Assembly for Wales election of 2011.-Offices held:...
  
  
• Kristin James
• Susan James
• Stephanie James
  Stephanie James
  Stephanie Beth James is a Welsh actress who began her career in 2004, at the age of 19, when she portrayed the role of single mother Leigh-Anne Williams in the feature film "A Way of Life", in which she portrayed a struggling single parent who was at the centre of a storyline featuring a racially...
  
  
• Vanessa James
  Vanessa James
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• Claudia Jameson
  Claudia Jameson
  Claudia Jameson was a popular writer of 26 romance novels from 1981 to 1991.- Single novels :* Escape to Love * Lesson in Love * The Melting Heart * Never Say Never * Yours Faithfully...
  
  
• Kelly Jamison
• Miranda Jarrett
• Sabrina Jeffries
  Sabrina Jeffries
  Sabrina Jeffries is the pen name of a best-selling American author of romance novels, who also writes under the pen names Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Michelle Jerott
  Michelle Jerott
  Michelle Jerott is an American writer of romance novels. She has written under both her real name and her pen name, Michele Albert. She won a Golden Heart Award, was nominated by Romantic Times and appeared on the Waldenbook's National Bestseller List...
  
  
• Iris Johansen
  Iris Johansen
  Iris Johansen is an American author of crime fiction and romance novels.-Biography:Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels,...
  
  
• Nancy John
• Sabrina Johnson
  Sabrina Johnson
  Sabrina Johnson is an English former pornographic actress.She began performing in adult movies in around 1995, at the age of 18. In 2000 she attempted to break the world gangbang record, by reportedly having sex 2000 times during a two-day event named Gangbang 2000, held on 28 and 29 December...
  
  
• Susan Johnson
  Susan Johnson (novelist)
  Susan Johnson , is an American author of numerous New York Times bestselling sexually explicit romance novels. She is unusual among romance writers for providing footnotes in some of her novels.-Stand Alone Titles:*Pure Sin...
  
  
• Joan Johnston
  Joan Johnston
  Joan Johnston is a best-selling American author of over forty contemporary and historical romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Linda O. Johnston
  Linda O. Johnston
  Linda O. Johnston is an American author of mystery and romance novels.Johnston’s first published fiction appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year...
  
  
• Annie Jones (a pseudonym of Catherine Jones
  Catherine Jones (novelist)
  Catherine Jones, née Lace is a British writer of romance novels since 1990. She also wrote as Kate Lace and as Annie Jones in collaboration.She is the twentyfourth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association....
  
   in collaboration)
• Catherine Jones
  Catherine Jones (novelist)
  Catherine Jones, née Lace is a British writer of romance novels since 1990. She also wrote as Kate Lace and as Annie Jones in collaboration.She is the twentyfourth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association....
  
  
• Jan Jones
• Crystal Jordan
  Crystal Jordan
  Crystal Jordan is a romance novelist who is published by Kensington Books, Samhain Publishing, Harlequin Spice Briefs, and Ellora's Cave. She was a finalist in both the National Readers' Choice Award and the FF&P Prism Contest, and she won the 2009 Passionate Plume Award in Paranormal/Time Travel....
  
  
• Laura Jordan
• Nicole Jordan
  Nicole Jordan
  Nicole Jordan is a best-selling American author of romance novels. Jordan's historical romances have appeared on numerous best-seller lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks, and Amazon.com list. She has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award as well as a...
  
  
• Penny Jordan
  Penny Jordan
  Penny Halsall, née Penelope Jones better known by her pen name of Penny Jordan, is a best-selling and prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels...
  
  
• B.D. Joyce
• Brenda Joyce
• Janet Joyce
  Janet Joyce
  Janet Joyce is a pseudonym used for the partnership of American writers Janet Bieber and Joyce Thies. Together they have written more than 15 romance novels.-Single Novels:*Conquer memories, 1982/06*Libertine Lady, 1983/02...
  
  
• Jenna Lee Joyce

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• Andrea Kane
  Andrea Kane
  Andrea Kane is an American author of romance novels. She has resided in the Martinsville section of Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, United States, with her husband Brad and daughter Wendi.-Single novels:* Dream Castle...
  
  
• Julia Kane
• Kathleen Kane
• Alex Kava
  Alex Kava
  Alex Kava is an American author of psychological suspense novels.Growing up in the country of Silver Creek, Nebraska, Sharon Kava fantasized about becoming a writer. Her parents, although they understood the value of education, had a tremendous work ethic. Reading was seen as frivolous unless...
  
  
• Patricia Kay
  Patricia Kay
  Patricia Kay, also known as Trisha Alexander and Ann Patrick, is an American bestselling author of romance novels and women's fiction. She has authored more than 47 books, with four million copies published in 18 countries.-Biography:...
  
  
• Karen Kay
  Karen Kay
  Karen Kay is the pen name for Karen Kay Elstner, an American author of historical romance novels. All of her novels feature Native Americans.-Biography:...
  
  
• Corey Keaton
• Kathleen Kellow
• Carla Kelly
  Carla Kelly
  Carla Kelly, or Carla Sue Kelly is a popular and acclaimed writer in the Regency romance genre. She is the author of over forty books and short stories. Her books are "keepers" and accordingly hard to find. Renowned for what she calls "dukeless" regencies, her stories often revolve around ordinary...
  
  
• Megan Kelly
• Nancy Kelly
  Nancy Kelly
  Nancy Kelly was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James , which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone...
  
  
• Sharon Kendrick
  Sharon Kendrick
  Sharon Kendrick is a popular British writer of over 75 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1993. Her books regularly top the sales charts for romance fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.-Biography:...
  
  
• Elle Kennedy
  Elle Kennedy
  Elle Kennedy is a Canadian contemporary romance and romantic suspense writer. In 2010 she received a RITA Award nomination for Silent Watch, her debut novel with Silhouette Romantic Suspense. She also publishes with Harlequin Blaze and Samhain Publishing. She received her B.A...
  
  
• Kathryne Kennedy
  Kathryne Kennedy
  Kathryne Kennedy is an award-winning American paranormal romance and historical fiction writer.-Publishing career:Kennedy's mother published several romances, inspiring her daughter to do the same. Kennedy grew up with a love of fantasy and romance, and eventually decided to combine the two genres...
  
  
• Lena Kennedy
  Lena Kennedy
  Lena Kennedy , was an English author. Her books were mostly historic romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London where she lived for all her life...
  
  
• Julie Kenner
  Julie Kenner
  Julie Kenner is an American author.Originally from California Kenner grew up in Texas and received a bachelors degree in radio-television-film from the University of Texas at Austin and later attended law school at Baylor University in Waco, Texas...
  
  
• Pamela Kent
• Madeleine Ker
• Cory Kenyon
  Cory Kenyon
  Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton are pseudonyms used by Mary Tate Engels and Vicki Lewis Thompson, two American writers who wrote collaboratively.-Single Novels:*Sheer Delight *Fortune Hunter *Ruffled Feathers...
  
  
• Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name she writes Urban Fantasy, but is best known for her Dark-Hunter vampire series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements...
  
  
• Flora Kidd
  Flora Kidd
  Flora Kidd was a British-Canadian popular writer of over 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1966 to 2000.-Biography:Flora born on 1926 in Liverpool, England...
  
  
• Susan King
  Susan King (novelist)
  Susan King, née Longhi is an American writer of historical romance novels as Susan King, Sarah Gabriel and Susan Fraser King...
  
  
• Maggie Kingsley
  Maggie Kingsley
  Maggie Kingsley is the pseudonym of Margaret Gray, a Scottish-born writer of Mills & Boon medical romances. Apart from one book - For Jodie's Sake - all of her medical romances are set in Scotland...
  
  
• Laura Kinsale
  Laura Kinsale
  Laura Kinsale is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling American writer of historical romance novels since 1985.-Biography:Laura Kinsale has a Master of Science in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked in the petroleum industry before beginning to write...
  
  
• Alexandra Kirk
• Sandra Kitt
  Sandra Kitt
  Sandra Kitt is an African-American author of contemporary romance novels. Her works have frequently made it to Essence magazine's "Black Board" bestseller lists.-Early years:...
  
  
• Lisa Kleypas
  Lisa Kleypas
  Lisa Kleypas is a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.-Biography:...
  
  
• Angela Knight
  Angela Knight
  Angela Ann Knight is the Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association . She was formerly a Conservative Party Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Erewash from 1992–97, and served as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1995–97.-Early life:Born in Sheffield, Knight...
  
  
• Rosanne Kohake
  Rosanne Kohake
  Rosanne Kohake was an American writer, who has written only three historical romance novels published from 1984 to 1985 by Avon Books...
  
  
• Betina Krahn
  Betina Krahn
  Betina Krahn is a RITA Award winning and New York Times best-selling author of historical romance novels.-Early years:...
  
  
• Amanda Kramer
  Amanda Kramer
  Amanda Kramer is an American musician, best known as a former keyboard player of the 1980s electronic band Information Society. She soon left the band due to "personal issues", later established as an addiction to heroin. She then joined the musical collective the Golden Palominos, beginning with...
  
  
• Judith Krantz
  Judith Krantz
  Judith Krantz , is an American novelist who writes in the romance genre. Her works include Scruples, Princess Daisy, and Till We Meet Again.-Early years:...
  
  
• Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. As Jayne Ann Krentz she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her...
  
   (also known as Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle)
• Susan Krinard
  Susan Krinard
  Susan Krinard is an author of paranormal romance, science fiction, and fantasy.Krinard received a BFA in Illustration from the California College of Arts and Crafts. She became inspired to become an author when a close friend of hers read a romantic "Beauty and the Beast"-like excerpt she'd written...
  
  
• Lynn Kurland
  Lynn Kurland
  Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical, time travel, and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families and her love scenes are not as explicit as many other popular romances.-Biography:Lynn Kurland is an only child...
  
  
• Susan Kyle

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• Kate Lace
• Patricia Lake
  Patricia Lake
  Patricia Van Cleeve Lake , known as Patricia Lake, was an American socialite, actress, and radio comedienne, who was suspected of being and, just before she died, claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of actress Marion Davies and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.-Parentage:In the 1920s,...
  
  
• Rozella Lake
• Arnette Lamb
  Arnette Lamb
  Arnette Lamb was an American writer of 13 romance novels from 1995 to 1998. She died from cancer...
  
  
• Charlotte Lamb
  Charlotte Lamb
  Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates was best known as the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb, a prolific and bestselling romantic novelist...
  
  , (1937-October 8, 2000)
• Alice Elinor Lambert
  Alice Elinor Lambert
  Alice Elinor Lambert was an American romance writer.In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels: Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Fragrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance. In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Canadian...
  
  
• Elizabeth Lambert
  Elizabeth Lambert
  Penelope Williamson is an American writer of romance novels as her real name and as the pen names Elizabeth Lambert and Penn Williamson.Penelope Williamson lives with her husband in Mill Valley, California....
  
  
• Sheila Lancaster, (1937-October 8, 2000)
• Ruth Langan
  Ruth Langan
  Ruth Ryan Langan is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance...
  
  
• Jill Marie Landis
  Jill Marie Landis
  Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with...
  
  
• Connie Lane
• Elizabeth Lane
  Elizabeth Lane
  Dame Elizabeth Lane, DBE was one of the first women to practise as a barrister in the United Kingdom.Born Elizabeth Kathleen Coulborn, she was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1940...
  
  
• Roumelia Lane
  Roumelia Lane
  Roumelia Lane was a romance writer for Mills & Boon from 1967 to 1997.-Single novels:*Rose of the Desert *Hideaway Heart *Summer to Love *Sea of Zanj *Terminus Tehran *The Scented Hills...
  
  
• Chloe Lang
  Chloe Lang
  Chloe Lang is an American author of erotic romance.-Biography:Chloe Lang lives in the DFW area. According to her bio on her publisher's website, Lang typically reads three or four books every week. She's an avid fan of the romance genre....
  
  
• Tania Langley, (1927)
• Stephanie Laurens
  Stephanie Laurens
  Stephanie Laurens is a best-selling Australian author of romance novels.-Biography:Stephanie Laurens was born in Sri Lanka, which was at the time the British colony of Ceylon. When she was 5, her family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she was raised. After continuing through school and...
  
  
• Constance Laux
  Constance Laux
  Constance Laux is an American writer of romance novels as her real name and her the pen names: Connie Deka and Connie Lane.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kathy Lawrence
• Day Leclaire
  Day Leclaire
  Day Leclaire is a best-selling American author of more than forty romance novels. She has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes from a multitude of organizations.-Early years:...
  
  
• Jane LeCompte
  Jane LeCompte
  Jane LeCompte is an American writer of romance novels as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Marilyn Lee
• Miranda Lee
  Miranda Lee
  Miranda Lee is a popular Australian writer of over 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1990.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rachel Lee
  Rachel Lee
  Rachel Lee is an American violinist.Regarded as one of the most promising upcoming talents on the international stage, Rachel has performed with major orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago, Seattle, Saint Louis, and National Symphonies, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Seoul Philharmonic, and...
  
  
• Roberta Leigh
  Roberta Leigh
  Janey Scott Lewin , well known as Roberta Leigh is a British author and artist. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories as Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay, and Janey Scott....
  
  
• Marion Lennox
  Marion Lennox
  Marion Lennox is a popular writer of over 60 medical romance novels. She began publishing in 1990. She has also written "tender" romantic novels under another pseudonym, Trisha David.-Biography:...
  
  
• Laura Leone
• Julie Elizabeth Leto
  Julie Elizabeth Leto
  Julie Elizabeth Leto Julie Elizabeth Leto Julie Elizabeth Leto (born Florida is a best-selling American author of over forty romance novels. Her action-adventure novels are sold under the name Julie Leto, as will all future books by the author, who officially dropped her middle name in September...
  
  
• Linda Lewis
  Linda Lewis
  Linda Lewis is an English vocalist, songwriter and Guitarist. Lewis is the oldest of six children two of whom also had singing careers...
  
  
• Marjorie Lewty
  Marjorie Lewty
  Marjorie Lewty, née Lobb was a British writer of short stories and over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999 to Mills & Boon.- Biography :...
  
  
• Alice Chetwynd Ley
  Alice Chetwynd Ley
  Alice Chetwynd Ley, née Humphrey was a British writer of romance novels from 1959 to 1989....
  
   (b. 1913)
• Sophie Leyton (1928–2009) (pseudonym by Sheila Walsh
  Sheila Walsh (novelist)
  Sheila Walsh, née Sheila Frances O'Nions was a British writer of romance novels from 1975 to 2001; she also wrote as Sophie Leyton....
  
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• Rachel Lindsay
• Johanna Lindsey
  Johanna Lindsey
  Johanna Lindsey , is one of the most popular American writers of historical romance novels worldwide. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching #1.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Cathie Linz
  Cathie Linz
  Cathie Linz is a USA Today best-selling U.S. writer of over fifty contemporary romance novels known for their humor and witty dialogue. Her romance novels are published world wide in nearly twenty languages.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosina Lippi
  Rosina Lippi
  Rosina Lippi-Green, née Rosina Lippi is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green , Rosina Lippi , and Sara Donati ....
  
  
• Caren Lissner
  Caren Lissner
  Caren Lissner was born in New Jersey in 1972. Her published novels include Carrie Pilby and Starting from Square Two . She has also published humorous essays in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is editor-in-chief of the Hudson Reporter group of newspapers in New Jersey...
  
  
• Cait Logan
• Cait London
  Cait London
  Lois Kleinsasser of German-Russian ancestry is a USA Today's bestselling American writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as Cait London. She also signed her novels as Cait Logan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hilary London
• Julia London
  Julia London
  Dinah Dinwiddie is an American writer of romance novels as Julia London.-Biography:Dinah Dinwiddie aka Julia London was born and grew up on a ranch in Texas. She graduated college and worked in Washington D.C., traveling extensively in the United States and Europe before returning to Texas...
  
  
• William Stuart Long
• Claire Lorel
• Amii Lorin
• Emilie Loring
  Emilie Loring
  Emilie Baker Loring was a prolific American romance novelist of the 20th century. She began writing in 1914 at the age of 50 and continued until her death after a long illness in 1951. After her death, her estate was managed by her sons, Selden M. and Robert M...
  
  
• Claire Lorrimer (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
• Dorothy Mackie Low
  Dorothy Mackie Low
  Lois Dorothea Low, née Pilkington was a British writer of romance novels from 1962 to 1983 under different pseudonyms Dorothy Mackie Low, Lois Paxton, and Zoë Cass.She was elected the fifth Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association and also was a former...
  
   (b. 1916) (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
• Elizabeth Lowell
• Mary Lyons
  Mary Lyons
  This is blatantly an advertising article.Mary-Jo Wormell , better known as Mary Lyons, was a popular British writer of 45 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1983 to 2001....
  
  

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• Heather MacAllister
  Heather MacAllister
  Heather W. MacAllister is a U.S.American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1990, principally as Heather MacAllister...
  
  
• Katie MacAlister
  Katie MacAlister
  Katie MacAlister is a Seattle-area author of fiction and non-fiction. Her most popular titles are historical, contemporary, and paranormal romance. She also writes young-adult books under the pseudonym Katie Maxwell and mysteries under the pseudonym Kate Marsh.MacAlister's contemporary and...
  
   (also known as Katie Maxwell and Kate Marsh)
• Kinley MacGregor
• Allie Mackay
• Jan MacLean
• Debbie Macomber
  Debbie Macomber
  Debbie Macomber is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Over 140 million copies of her books are in print throughout the world, and four have become made-for-TV-movies...
  
  
• Ann Major
  Ann Major
  Margaret Major Cleaves is popular writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major....
  
  
• Susan Mallery
  Susan Mallery
  Susan Mallery is the author of over 80 books for Harlequin and Silhouette as well as full length novels. She lives in the Los Angeles Area with her husband and cats.- Booklist by Years:2010s:*Completely Smitten...
  
  
• Anne Mallory
  Anne Mallory
  Anne Mallory is an award-winning and best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her books blend romance and mystery. Her name is a pseudonym....
  
  
• Raynetta Mañees
  Raynetta Mañees
  Raynetta Manees is an African-American romance novelist.-Personal life:Mañees was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and is a graduate of Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University, where she received a BA degree in Mass Communications. She is retired from a 28+ year career as a...
  
  
• Jill Mansell
  Jill Mansell
  Jill Mansell is a British Chick lit author. Jill Mansell's books have sold over five million copies and her titles include Making your Mind Up, Fast Friends, Perfect Timing, Good at Games, Rumour Has It", Solo, and Millie's Fling, among many others. She grew up in the Cotswolds and attended Sir...
  
  
• Joanna Mansell
  Joanna Mansell
  - Single novels :* The Night Is Dark * Sleeping Tiger * Black Diamond * Miracle Man * Illusion of Paradise * Lord and Master * The Third Kiss * Wild Justice...
  
  
• Jill March
• Joanna Marcus, (November 21, 1919-October 3, 2006)
• Deb Marlowe
  Deb Marlowe
  Deb Marlowe is an American author for historical romance novels. She is a 2007 winner of the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award, granted to unpublished authors. Eleven days after entering her second manuscript, The Lost Jewel, for consideration for the Golden Heart Award, Marlowe...
  
  
• Katherine Marlowe
• Ellen Tanner Marsh
  Ellen Tanner Marsh
  Ellen Tanner Marsh is an author from Charleston, South Carolina.Marsh has written eleven novels, three of which - Reap the Savage Wind, Wrap Me in Splendor, and Sable - were listed on the New York Times paperback bestseller list....
  
  
• Debra Marshall
  Debra Marshall
  Debra Gale Marshall is an American actress and former professional wrestling manager and WWE Diva. Arguably best known by her ring name, Debra, she gained recognition for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1998 and 2002.She began her career in professional wrestling in...
  
  
• Paula Marshall
  Paula Marshall
  Paula Marshall is an American actress.-Career:In 1992, Marshall had a three-episode guest role on The Wonder Years and later guest-starred on shows such as Seinfeld, Nash Bridges, Grapevine and Diagnosis: Murder. In 1994, she got her first sitcom role on Wild Oats...
  
  
• Deborah Martin
  Deborah Martin
  Deborah Martin is a contemporary American Realist Painter, Fine Art Photographer and curator. A site-specific artist, her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats and domestic landscapes of small town America....
  
  
• Deirdre Martin
• Gail Gaymer Martin
  Gail Gaymer Martin
  Gail Gaymer Martin is a Christian speaker and an American novelist living in a Detroit, Michigan suburb.-Early life:It took Gail nearly 50 years to realize that an inspirational comment from her third grade teacher would be enough proof that she was indeed “…an excellent writer.”Now as an...
  
  
• Gail Z. Martin
  Gail Z. Martin
  Gail Z. Martin is an American writer and the author of The Chronicles of The Necromancer fantasy adventure series for Solaris Books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kat Martin
  Kat Martin
  Kathleen Kelly Martin is an American writer of romance novels under the pen names of Kat Martin, Kathy Lawrence and Kasey Marx. She is married to writer and photographer Larry Jay Martin.-Biography:...
  
  
• Laura Martin
  Laura Martin
  Laura DePuy is an award-winning colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.-Career:...
  
  
• Sandra Marton
  Sandra Marton
  Sandra Marton is an American writer of over 75 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1985.-Biography:Sandra Marton graduated from high school with honors in English, and graduated cum laude from college with highest departmental honors in English.She is married and has a married son, a...
  
  
• Kasey Marx
• Jessica Massey
• Anne Mather
  Anne Mather
  Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson , a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming....
  
   (also known as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming)
• Laura Matthews
• Lena Matthews
• Patricia Matthews
  Patricia Matthews
  Patricia Brisco Matthews was an American writer of gothic, romance and mystery novels. She wrote under the pen names P.A. Brisco, Patty Brisco, Pat A. Brisco, Pat Brisco, Patricia Matthews and Laura Wylie...
  
  
• A.E. Maxwell
• Mary Maxwell
• Patricia Maxwell
  Patricia Maxwell
  Patricia Maxwell, née Patricia Anne Ponder is a best-selling American author of over fifty novels. A member of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and the Affaire de Coeur Romance Hall of Fame, Maxwell has received numerous awards for her writing...
  
  
• Margaret Mayo
  Margaret Mayo (novelist)
  Margaret Mayo is a British writer of over 75 romance novels since 1976.-Biography:Margaret Mayo was born on February 7, 1936 in Staffordshire, England. She left school at fifteen, and learned shorthand and typing, to worked as a secretary for many years...
  
  
• Anne McAllister
  Anne McAllister
  Anne McAllister is a best-selling United States writer of over 55 romance novels since 1985.-Biography:Anne McAllister was born in California, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in Colorado and visiting relatives in Montana...
  
  
• Laurie McBain
  Laurie McBain
  Laurie McBain was a best-selling American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels Devil's Desire and Moonstruck Madness each sold over a million copies.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mary McBride
• Erin McCarthy
• Susanne McCarthy
  Susanne McCarthy
  Susanne McCarthy is an author most renowned as a popular fiction writer with 25 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 1999....
  
  
• Barbara McCauley
  Barbara McCauley
  Barbara McCauley is a popular romance writer. She has written over 35 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises since 1991.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sharron McClellan
  Sharron McClellan
  Sharron McClellan is an author of action adventure romance novels.Her first book,The Given, was published in 2001. She entered the world of action-adventure romance with The Midas Trap, a Silhouette Bombshell.-Biography:...
  
  
• May McGoldrick
• Tate McKenna
• Meagan McKinney
  Meagan McKinney
  Ruth Goodman is an American writer of 20 romance novels , writing as Meagan McKinney.-Biography:Ruth Goodman was born in 1961. She studied Biology at University, and she worked for several years as a biologist, before starting to write professionally...
  
  
• Rena McLeary
• Barbara McMahon
  Barbara McMahon
  Barbara McMahon is a popular U.S.American writer of over 65 romance novels published by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984.-Biography:...
  
  
• Judith McNaught
  Judith McNaught
  Judith McNaught is a bestselling author of over a dozen historical and contemporary romance novels, with 30 million copies of her works in print. She was also the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station...
  
  
• Teresa Medeiros
  Teresa Medeiros
  Teresa Medeiros is a United States award-winning romance novelist with more than eight million books in print. She wrote her first novel at 21 and has since gone on to publish 16 books. Before becoming a well-known author, she was a nurse...
  
  
• Susan Meier
  Susan Meier
  Susan Meier is popular writer of 32 romance novels since 1990.She has been an active member of the Pennsylvania writers organization, Pennwriters, previously serving as President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Area Representative, Bylaws Committee Chair and Elections Chair...
  
  
• Christina Merlin (1911–1995) (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
• Stephenie Meyer
  Stephenie Meyer
  Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...
  
  
• Judith Michael
  Judith Michael
  Judith Michael is the pseudonym of the husband-and-wife writing team of Judith Barnard and Michael Fain . Barnard has worked as a journalist, educational film writer, biographer and editor. She received a B.A. from Ohio State University and an M.A. from Northwestern University. Under her own name,...
  
  
• Marie Michael
• Barbara Michaels
• Fern Michaels
  Fern Michaels
  Fern Michaels is an American author of romance and thriller novels, including nearly 50 best selling books with more than 70 million copies in print...
  
  
• Leigh Michaels
  Leigh Michaels
  Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger , a popular United States writer of over 80 romance novels. She published her novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984 to 2006. She also teaches romance writing for Gothan Writers' Workshop among other places.-Biography:LeAnn was born on...
  
  
• Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller , is a best-selling American author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Sarah Mlynowski
  Sarah Mlynowski
  Sarah Mlynowski is an editor and a writer of chick lit and young-adult fiction novels. In 2001, she published her first novel Milkrun, which has since been published in 16 countries, selling over 600,000 copies around the globe.Married, Sarah lives in New York City, United States.-Personal...
  
  
• Nicole Mones
  Nicole Mones
  Nicole Mones is an American novelist and food writer. , she has published three novels, entitled Lost in Translation, which appeared in 1998, A Cup of Light , and The Last Chinese Chef, released May 2007. Lost in Translation won the 2000 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize awarded by the Susan B...
  
  
• Karen Marie Moning
  Karen Marie Moning
  Karen Marie Moning, born in Cincinnati Ohio, is a #1 New York Times bestselling author best known for her adult-themed Urban Fantasy FEVER series. She also wrote the Highlander series...
  
  
• Karyn Monk
  Karyn Monk
  Karyn Monk is a Canadian best-selling writer of historical romance novels since 1994. Her books have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller List, and have won numerous awards....
  
  
• Margaret Moore
  Margaret Moore
  Margaret Moore is a Canadian author of romance novels.-Biography:The USA Today bestselling author of over 40 historical romance novels and novellas, Margaret Moore graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto with a degree in English literature. She sold her first book, A Warrior's...
  
  
• Mary Moore
  Mary Moore
  Mary Moore may refer to:* Mary Carr Moore , American composer* Mary Elsie Moore , American heiress* Mary Tyler Moore , American actress* Mary Moore , American voice actor, first voice of talking clock...
  
  
• Rachel Moore
  Jean Saunders
  Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes , is a British writer of romance novels since 1974, she writes under her married and maiden name, and also writes under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore...
  
  
• Lucy Monroe
• Peggy Moreland
  Peggy Moreland
  Peggy Morse, née Bozeman well known as Peggy Moreland is a USA TODAY and Waldenbooks bestselling American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1989. She also signed a novel with her married name Peggy Morse.-Biography:Peggy Bozeman was born Taurus in Texas, United States. She grew up with her...
  
  
• Diana Morgan
  Diana Morgan (novelist)
  -Single novels:*Moments to Share *Trade Secrets *Behind Closed Doors *Lady in Flight *Anything Goes *Two in a Huddle *Paradise Found *Bringing Up Baby *Pocketful of Miracles *To Catch a Thief...
  
  
• Hunter Morgan
• Raye Morgan
• Wendy Morgan
  Wendy Morgan
  Wendy Morgan is a former Deputy in the States of Guernsey, the parliament of the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.Wendy Morgan was elected in 2004 and represented the electoral district of St. Peter Port North, but failed to gain a seat in the 2008 elections...
  
  
• Peggy Morse
• Carole Mortimer
  Carole Mortimer
  Carole Mortimer is a popular British writer of over 150 romance novels since 1978. She was one of Mills & Boon's youngest authors, and now is one of their most popular and prolific authors.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jill Munroe
  Jill Munroe
  Jill Munroe is a fictional character, played by Farrah Fawcett in the first season of Charlie's Angels .Jill is the sporty and athletic angel, and is seen coaching a kids' basketball team, playing tennis, swimming, bowling, skateboarding, and rollerskating on the show. Not just a tomboy, she also...
  
  
• Annabel Murray

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• Susan Naiper
• Betty Neels
  Betty Neels
  Evelyn Jessy "Betty" Neels was a prolific English author of romance novels. She wrote over 134 titles , beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death...
  
  
• Deborah Nicholas
• Marie Nicole
• Freya North
  Freya North
  Freya North is a British author.Her novels centre around strong female characters and their raunchy exploits. One of the precursors of Chick lit, her books have been critical and financial successes....
  
  
• Celeste O. Norfleet
  Celeste O. Norfleet
  Celeste O. Norfleet is a contemporary African American novelist of romance and young adult novels.- Early years:...
  
  

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• Constance O'Day-Flannery
  Constance O'Day-Flannery
  Constance O'Day-Flannery is a best-selling American author of romance novels.-Biography:Constance O'Day-Flannery has never taken a writing course or attended college. She began writing when her son entered school. While reading romance novels during her recovery from a hysterectomy, O'Day-Flannery...
  
  
• Laurel O'Donnell
  Laurel O'Donnell
  Laurel O'Donnell is an award winning American author of romance novels.-Biography:Laurel O'Donnell started her writing career with a Golden Heart Competition nomination from the Romance Writers of America for her first medieval romance novel The Angel and the Prince. This book caught the...
  
  
• Elisabeth Ogilvie
  Elisabeth Ogilvie
  Elisabeth Ogilvie was an American writer. She was born in Boston and grew up in Dorchester, Quincy, and Roxbury.-Life:...
  
  
• Janette Oke
  Janette Oke
  Janette Oke is a Canadian author and pioneer of inspirational fiction. Her books are often set in a pioneer time period and centered around female protagonists...
  
  
• Elizabeth Oldfield
  Elizabeth Oldfield
  Nadine Hoskinson, well known as Elizabeth Oldfield was a popular British writer of over 40 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1982 to 1998, when she retired from romance. In her sixties, she decided to return to writing, and was published again in 2007....
  
  
• Margaret O'Neill
• Kathy Orr
• Ruth Owen

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• Lynda Page
  Lynda Page
  Lynda Page is a Leicestershire-based author.Page is one of the UK's top-selling saga authors who has written over 20 bestselling critically praised novels. Her novels have reached the bestseller charts of WH Smiths and The Sunday Times....
  
  
• Rebecca Paisley
  Rebecca Paisley
  Rebecca Boado Rosas was an American author of romance novels as Rebecca Paisley from 1990 to 1997.-Biography:Rebecca Boado's father, Emil Edward Boado of the Air Force, died during the war of Vietnam. With five years, she began to write a repugnant poem to her sister. Rebecca married with Mr...
  
  
• Diana Palmer
  Diana Palmer (author)
  Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an award winning American writer well-known as Diana Palmer, who has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S...
  
  
• Margaret Pargeter
  Margaret Pargeter
  Margaret Pargeter was a popular writer of 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1975 to 1986.-Single novels :*Winds from the Sea*Ride a Black Horse*The Kilted Stranger*Blue Skies, Dark Waters*Hold Me Captive...
  
  
• Adele Parks
• Delia Parr
  Delia Parr
  Delia Parr is a pen name for the historical fiction author Mary Lechleidner.Raised in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, Parr attended Pennsauken High School and graduated from Rutgers University. She is a full-time high school teacher who writes during her summer vacations...
  
  
• Valerie Parv
  Valerie Parv
  Valerie Parv is a popular Australian writer of over 53 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1982.-Biography:Valerie Parv married Paul, who was a crocodile hunter in the tropical north of Australia. They lived for some years in Sydney...
  
  
• Ann Patrick
• Lynn Patrick
  Lynn Patrick
  Joseph Lynn Patrick was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. As a player, Patrick played for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. Lynn was an important member of one Stanley Cup title the Rangers won in 1940. After his playing career, he went on to be the general...
  
  
• Maxine Patrick
• Lois Paxton (b. 1916) (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
• Rachel Cosgrove Payes
  Rachel Cosgrove Payes
  Rachel R. Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz...
  
   (1922–1998)
• Diane Pearson
  Diane Pearson
  Diane Pearson is a British book editor and also writer of romance novels, who has been translated into several languages....
  
  
• Judith Pella
  Judith Pella
  Judith Pella is an author of Christian fiction. Many of her books are historical in nature, and she has mentioned how she enjoys the historical research.She has a BA degree in Social Science, and was a registered nurse...
  
  
• Diane Perkins (also known as Diane Gaston)
• Carly Phillips
  Carly Phillips
  Carly Phillips is the pen name used by Karen Drogin to write over twenty-three best-selling contemporary romance novels.-Awards:*Waldenbooks Bestselling Author Award...
  
  
• Dorothy Phillips
  Dorothy Phillips
  Dorothy Phillips was an American stage and film actress.-Career:Born Dorothy Gwendolyn Strible in Baltimore, Maryland, Phillips began her career as a stage actress. She made her film debut in 1911, and appeared in over 150 films during her career...
  
  
• Johanna Phillips
• Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  Susan Elizabeth Phillips is an award-winning and best-selling American writer of romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joan Elliott Pickart
  Joan Elliott Pickart
  Joan Elliott Pickart is a popular United States writer of over 100 romance novels since 1984. She also writes under the pen name Robin Elliott...
  
  
• Rosamunde Pilcher
  Rosamunde Pilcher
  Rosamunde Pilcher OBE is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.-Early years:...
  
  , (born 1924)
• Suzy Pizzuti
• Belva Plain
  Belva Plain
  Belva Plain , née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ida Pollock
  Ida Pollock
  Ida Pollock, née Crowe , is a British writer of several short-stories and over a hundred romance novels under her married name, Ida Pollock, and under her numerous pseudonyms: Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and...
  
  
• Patricia Ponder
• Jane Porter
  Jane Porter
  Jane Porter was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.-Life and work:Jane Porter was an avid reader. Said to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write, she read the whole of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene while still a child...
  
  
• Elizabeth Power
  Elizabeth Power
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Power is a British actress. Power began her career in repertory theatre and went on to appear in several West End musicals. However, she best known for her work on British television, in particular her role as Christine Hewitt in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders . She has since...
  
  
• Heather Graham Pozzessere
  Heather Graham Pozzessere
  Heather Graham Pozzessere is a best-selling US writer, who writes primarily romance novels...
  
  
• Evadne Price
  Evadne Price
  Evadne Price , who wrote mostly under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith, was an English writer, actress, astrologer and media personality....
  
  
• Mary Jo Putney
  Mary Jo Putney
  Mary Jo Putney is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She has also been published fantasy romance novels as M.J. Putney. Her books are known for their unusual subject matter, including alcoholism, death, and domestic...
  
  

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• Carol Queen
  Carol Queen
  Carol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture...
  
  
• Erica Quest
• Amanda Quick (also known as Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. As Jayne Ann Krentz she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her...
  
  , Jayne Castle)
• Julia Quinn
  Julia Quinn
  Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger , a best-selling American historical romance author, who says she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick...
  
  

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• Karen Ranney
  Karen Ranney
  - Biography :Karen Ranney is the daughter of an Air Force officer and lived in places around the world, including Naples and Paris. She began writing when she was five. In first grade, she wrote a short story called "The Maple Leaf," which was chosen to be read over the school intercom.After...
  
  
• Jaclyn Reding
  Jaclyn Reding
  Jaclyn Reding is an American writer of historical romance novels. She has been a Golden Quill Awards winner and the author of an Amazon.com's #1 bestseller...
  
  
• Michelle Reid
  Michelle Reid
  Michelle Reid is a popular British writer of over 30 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1988.-Biography:Michelle Reid born and grew up in Manchester in the Northwest of England with her four siblings...
  
  
• Laura Resnick
  Laura Resnick
  Laura Resnick , is an award-winning fantasy writer. She was the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction for 1993...
  
  
• Elvi Rhodes
  Elvi Rhodes
  Elvi Rhodes is a British author of historical and romantic fiction.-Career:Rhodes was born and brought up in Yorkshire, and now lives on the Sussex coast. Many of her novels are set around the Yorkshire Dales...
  
  
• Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• Emilie Richards
  Emilie Richards
  Emilie Richards is an American author of over 50 contemporary romance and mystery novels.- Early years :Emilie Richards was born in Bethesda, Maryland and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. After receiving an undergraduate degree in American studies from Florida State University, Richards earned a...
  
  
• Serena Richards
• Emma Richmond
  Emma Richmond
  Emma Richmond was a popular writer of 33 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1988 to 2001.Emma was born when open fields and farms were the norm and motorways nonexistent. She had a terrific childhood. Snow in winter, sun in summer. A life of adventure. Emma has an older brother and a younger...
  
  
• Christie Ridgway
  Christie Ridgway
  Christie Ridgway is an American romance author. Ridgway has written for many publishing houses, including Silhouette and Avon.-Biography:Christie Ridgway grew up in California, and began writing romance when she was eleven years old...
  
  
• Judith Merkle Riley
  Judith Merkle Riley
  Judith Merkle Riley was a U.S. writer and academic who wrote six historical romance novels from 1988 to 1999.-Biography:...
  
  
• Christine Rimmer
  Christine Rimmer
  Christine Rimmer is a USA Today and Waldenbooks bestselling U.S. writer of over 60 romance novels since 1987...
  
  
• Francine Rivers
  Francine Rivers
  Francine Sandra Rivers is an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels. Prior to becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, Rivers wrote historical romance novels...
  
  
• Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• J.D. Robb
  J.D. Robb
  J.D. Robb was a composer of electronic and classical music....
  
  
• JoAnn Robb
• JoAnn Robbins
• Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  
• Paula Roberts
• Patricia Robertson
  Patricia Robertson
  Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.-Personal:She was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania to Ilse Hilliard and the late Harold Hilliard of Homer City. She was married to Scott Robertson.-Education:She graduated from Homer-Center High School, Homer City,...
  
  
• Denise Robins
  Denise Robins
  Denise Robins, née Denise Naomi Klein was a prolific British romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association...
  
  
• Patricia Robins
  Patricia Robins
  Patricia Robins is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom...
  
   (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
• Suzanne Robinson
• Pam Rock
• Rosemary Rogers
  Rosemary Rogers
  Rosemary Rogers, née Rosemary Janz is a best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her first book, Sweet Savage Love, was published in 1974. She was the second romance author, after Kathleen Woodiwiss, to have her novels published in trade paperback format...
  
  
• Kristine Rolofson
  Kristine Rolofson
  Kristine Rolofson is a popular U.S.American writer of over 35 romance novels since 1987.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jeanne Rose
  Jeanne Rose
  Jeanne Rose is an herbalist/aromatherapist who changed the current practice of American herbalism when she began her public work in 1969 with the publication of her first book, Herbs & Things, Jeanne Rose's Herbal. She began her herbal career in California as an undergraduate with studies in...
  
  
• Pam Rosenthal
  Pam Rosenthal
  Pam Rosenthal is a Brooklyn-born author of erotic historical romance novels. Under the pseudonym Molly Weatherfield she has also written erotic novels in the BDSM genre . She and her husband Michael Rosenthal were part owners of the Modern Times bookstore in San Francisco...
  
  
• JoAnn Ross
  JoAnn Ross
  JoAnn Ross is popular US writer of over 95 romance novels since 1983. She has also written novels as JoAnn Robbins and JoAnn Robb....
  
  
• Kathryn Ross
  Kathryn Ross
  Kathryn Ross is a popular British writer of over 30 romance novels. Her books have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Dutch , Portuguese , Italian Modern Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Finnish, Afrikaans, Polish, Arabic, Danish, German, Hebrew , Korean, Turkish, Norwegian, and Thai.Ross...
  
  
• Renee Roszel
  Renee Roszel
  Renee Roszel is an American writer of over-40 romance novels since 1983.-Biography:Roszel does not like to study languages or to play music, however, she does like to read. Some of her favorite authors include: Irving Stone, J.D. Salinger, Larry McMurtry and Margaret Mitchell. She also a fan of...
  
  
• Ann Roth
  Ann Roth
  Ann Roth is an American costume designer for films and Broadway theatre.Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Roth was a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the...
  
  
• Barbara Rowan
• Rosamond Royal
• Nan Ryan
  Nan Ryan
  Nancy Henderson Ryan is an U.S.American writer of romance novels under her full name and as Nan Ryan.-Biography:Nancy Henderson was born in Texas, U.S.A, she is the middle daughter of a rancher and postmaster....
  
  
• Nancy Henderson Ryan
• Patricia Ryan
• Rachel Ryan

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• Lynsay Sands
  Lynsay Sands
  Lynsay Sands is an award winning Canadian author of over 30 books. She is noted for the humor she injects into her stories. While she writes both historical and paranormal novels, she is best known for her Argeneau series about a modern family of vampires.- Biography :Sands grew up in Southern...
  
  
• Bethany Kennedy Scanlon
  Bethany Kennedy Scanlon
  Bethany Kennedy Scanlon, born March 21, 1975 in Houston, Texas, is an author/speaker who writes for the Christian genre. She writes under the pen name Bethany K. Scanlon....
  
  
• Robin Schone
  Robin Schone
  Robin Schone is a best-selling American author of erotic romance novels.-Biography:Schone read her first romance novel, These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, at age twelve, and began reading erotic novels when she was fifteen...
  
  
• Gena Showalter
  Gena Showalter
  Gena Showalter is an American author in the genres of contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and young adult.Showalter sold her first book at the age of 27, and has published over 25 books. She has been named by The New York Times and USA Today as a bestselling author...
  
  
• Alicia Scott
• Janey Scott
  Janey Scott
  Janey Scott Lewin , well known as Roberta Leigh is a British author and artist. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories as Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay, and Janey Scott....
  
  
• Sara Seale
  Sara Seale
  A.D.L. MacPherson was a British writer of romance as Sara Seale from 1932 to 1976. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands.-Single novels: *Beggars May Sing *Chase the Moon...
  
  
• Alexandra Sellers
  Alexandra Sellers
  Alexandra Sellers is a writer of over 35 contemporary romance novels. Her novels have been published in various Harlequin and Silhouette category lines.- Biography :...
  
  
• Anya Seton
  Anya Seton
  Anya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton, an American author of historical romances.-Biography:...
  
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• Jill Shalvis
  Jill Shalvis
  Jill Shalvis is a USA Today bestselling American writer of over 50 romance novels since 1996. She has written four books under the pseudonym Jill Sheldon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Maggie Shayne
  Maggie Shayne
  Maggie Shayne is an American author of more than 50 romance and paranormal novels. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award...
  
  
• Jill Sheldon
• Suzanne Sherrill
• Valerie Sherwood
• Anita Shreve
  Anita Shreve
  Anita Shreve is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading MA. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded...
  
  
• Rebecca Sinclair
  Rebecca Sinclair
  Rebecca Sinclair is an American author of twelve historical romance novels.According to Romantic Times, Sinclair "has a skillful way with characters and some of her supporting cast members were so interesting they deserve books of their own...
  
  
• Linnea Sinclair
  Linnea Sinclair
  Linnea Sinclair is an award winning writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy Romance and Paranormal Romance. Sinclair's Gabriel's Ghost was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker...
  
  
• Nalini Singh
  Nalini Singh (author)
  Nalini Singh is a New Zealand writer; for the Indian journalist of the same name see Nalini Singh.Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of numerous paranormal romance novels.- Early life :...
  
  
• Susan Sizemore
  Susan Sizemore
  Susan Sizemore is an American author of both romance and science fiction novels.-Biography:Susan Sizemore began writing her own stories as a child. As an adult, she wrote fanfiction set in the Star Trek universe. She later began writing original romance novels...
  
  
• Christina Skye
• Bertrice Small
  Bertrice Small
  Bertrice Small is an U.S.American New York Times bestselling writer of historical and erotic romance novels. Bertrice lives on Long Island, New York with her husband George Small. She is a member of The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, PAN, and PASIC...
  
  
• Lass Small
  Lass Small
  Lass Small was an American writer of over 60 romance novels from 1983 to 2000. She also signed her novelas as Cally Hughes and Callie Hugher.She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.-Single Novels:*Innocent Seduction...
  
  
• Barbara Dawson Smith
  Barbara Dawson Smith
  Barbara Dawson Smith is an American writer of historical romance novels whose first novel, No Regrets was published in 1985. She is winner of the 2002 Romance Writers of America award and has published at least twenty-four novels, which have garnered numerous awards, including "Best Historical...
  
  
• Joan Smith
  Joan Smith
  Joan Alison Smith is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Karen Rose Smith
  Karen Rose Smith
  Karen Rose Smith is a popular U.S.American writer of over 70 romance novels. She has also signed her novels as Kari Sutherland and Karen Hughes.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alexandra Sokoloff
  Alexandra Sokoloff
  Alexandra Sokoloff is an American novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The Harrowing, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2006. Her second novel, The Price, was published by St. Martin's in 2007, and her third, The Unseen, in 2009. She is a Bram Stoker and Anthony award nominee and a...
  
  
• Teresa Southwick
  Teresa Southwick
  Teresa Southwick is an American author of contemporary and historical romance novels.- Biography :Teresa Southwick was conceived in New Jersey, born in Southern California, and moved to Texas, where she lived for many years...
  
  
• Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• Terry Spear
  Terry Spear
  Terry Spear born in Sacramento, California, is an award-winning American author who specializes in writing paranormal romance novels and medieval romance novels for both adults and teen audiences. Her urban fantasy romance series started with Heart of the Wolf which Publishers Weekly named as one...
  
  
• LaVyrle Spencer
  LaVyrle Spencer
  LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers...
  
  
• Erin St. Claire
• Lael St. James (pen name of Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller
  Linda Lael Miller , is a best-selling American author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James.-Personal life:...
  
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• Danielle Steel
  Danielle Steel
  Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel , better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas....
  
  , (born 1947)
• Jessica Steele
  Jessica Steele
  Jessica Steele is a popular British author of over 85 romance novels. Her novels have been published by Mills & Boon since 1979.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sharon Stephens
• Mariah Stewart
  Mariah Stewart
  Mariah Stewart is an author of romantic fiction whose titles have appeared on the New York Times andUSA Today bestsellers lists. Stewart's books have won, or been nominated for, various major awards, including three-time recipient of the New Jersey Romance Writers' Golden Leaf Awards for The...
  
  
• Mary Stewart
  Mary Stewart
  Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...
  
  , (born 1916)
• Katherine Stone
  Katherine Stone
  Katherine Stone Chase is an American doctor and writer of romance novels under her maiden name Katherine Stone. She is married to the doctor and writer Jack Chase...
  
  
• Alex Stuart
• Anne Stuart
  Anne Stuart
  Anne Stuart, born Anne Kristine Stuart , is a prolific and best-selling American romance novelist. She has written over 60 novels and was the recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.Her first book was published in 1974 by Ballantine Press when she was 25 years old...
  
  
• Robyn Stuart
• V.A. Stuart
• Vivian Stuart
  Vivian Stuart
  Vivian Stuart, née Violet Vivian Finlay , was a British writer from 1953 to 1986. She was published under different pen names; she signed her romance novels as Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart, she signed her military sagas as V.A...
  
  
• Katherine Sutcliffe
  Katherine Sutcliffe
  Katherine Sutcliffe is a best-selling American author of romance novels. Many of her books are considered to be "dark" romances, examining issues traditionally not mentioned in the romance genre.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kari Sutherland
• Shanna Swendson
  Shanna Swendson
  Shanna Swendson is an American author of romance novels and chick lit. She has also written under the pseudonym Samantha Carter. Swendson is perhaps best known for the "Katie Chandler" series of novels, beginning with the 2005 publication of Enchanted, Inc.-Biography:Although Swendson majored in...
  
  

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• Janelle Taylor
  Janelle Taylor
  Janelle Taylor is an American author of historical romance novels.-Biography:Janelle Diane Williams was born June 28, 1944 in Athens, Georgia. She graduated from Athens High School in 1962, and spent the next three years as an orthodontic nurse in Athens. In 1965 she married Michael Taylor...
  
  
• Jayne Taylor
• Jennifer Taylor
  Jennifer Taylor (writer)
  Jennifer Taylor is a popular British writer of 50 medical romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1988.-Biography:Jennifer Taylor born on 1 January 1949 in England. She is a Chartered Librarian and worked for many years in scientific research...
  
  
• Corín Tellado
  Corín Tellado
  María del Socorro Tellado López , known as Corín Tellado, was a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries...
  
  
• Kimberly Kaye Terry
• Cathy Gillen Thacker
  Cathy Gillen Thacker
  Cathy Gillen Thacker is an American author of over seventy romance novels.-Biography:Thacker began writing to occupy herself while she was raising small children. She wrote seven books as she taught herself how to be an author. Her eighth attempt was finally published in July 1982...
  
  
• Joyce Thies
  Joyce Thies
  Joyce Thies is an American writer of romance novels. She began her writing career as a coauthor with Janet Bieber, writing under the names Janet Joyce and Jenna Lee Joyce; together they wrote more than fifteen romances...
  
  
• Diane Thomas
  Diane Thomas
  Diane Thomas was a screenwriter. She was working as a waitress while writing scripts and then had the opportunity to pitch the script for Romancing the Stone to customer Michael Douglas who then bought, produced, and starred in the film with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.Diane Thomas died in a...
  
  
• Jodi Thomas
  Jodi Thomas
  Jodi Thomas is the pen name of Jodi Koumalats, an American author of historical romance novels, most of which are set in Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosie Thomas
  Rosie Thomas (writer)
  Rosie Thomas is a writer, currently living in London. Her numerous novels, several of them top ten bestsellers, deal with the common themes of love and loss.She is a keen traveller and mountaineer...
  
  
• Kate Thompson
  Kate Thompson (romantic novelist)
  Kate Thompson is an Northern Irish actress and romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli . She was born in Belfast and studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial Glenroe...
  
  
• Vicki Lewis Thompson
  Vicki Lewis Thompson
  Vicki Lewis Thompson is a best-selling U.S.American writer of over seventy romance novels. She has also been published under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Mary Tate Engels.-Biography:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Thornton
• Kay Thorpe
  Kay Thorpe
  Kay Thorpe is a British author of over seventy-five romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1968. All her novels have also been published under Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Over a period of four decades, she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage,...
  
  
• Sylvia Thorpe
  Sylvia Thorpe
  Sylvia Thorpe was the pseudonym used by June Sylvia Thimblethorpe a British writer of romance novels from 1950 to 1983....
  
   (b. 1926) (a pseudonym of June Sylvia Thimblethorpe)
• Jacqueline Topaz
• Elizabeth Trehearne
• Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani is an American novelist, television writer, producer and film director.-Career:Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and attended Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was a writer for The Cosby Show and its spin-off series A Different World before beginning on...
  
  

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• Tina Wainscott
  Tina Wainscott
  Tina Wainscott is an American author of suspense novels and category romance novels.-Biography:Tina Wainscott was born in Naples, Florida. She was graduated from Lely High School in Naples in 1983 and studied business at Edison College...
  
  
• Christian Walford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
• Elizabeth Walker
• Kate Walker
  Kate Walker (writer)
  Kate Walter was a popular British writer of 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1984.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pamela Wallace
  Pamela Wallace
  Pamela Wallace is an American screenwriter and author. She won an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Witness. Wallace has also written 25 romance novels, under her own name and the pseudonyms Pamela Simpson and Dianne King.-Screenwriting:Pamela Wallace co-wrote her first...
  
  
• Vivienne Wallington
  Vivienne Wallington
  Vivienne Wallington is an Australian author of romance novels under her own name as well as the pen name Elizabeth Duke.-Biography:Wallington worked for many years as a librarian. She wrote three children's books before beginning to write in the romance genre. Nineteen of her novels were...
  
  
• Sheila Walsh
  Sheila Walsh (novelist)
  Sheila Walsh, née Sheila Frances O'Nions was a British writer of romance novels from 1975 to 2001; she also wrote as Sophie Leyton....
  
   (1928–2009) (also known as Sophie Leyton)
• J. R. Ward (also known as Jessica Bird)
• Linda Warren
  Linda Warren
  Linda Pearl Siegert Warren is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Warren was born Linda Siegert in Brazos County, Texas in 1945. After graduation from Bryan High School in Bryan, Texas, Warren enrolled in a nursing program offered by Scott & White. After less than a year...
  
  
• Nancy Warren
  Nancy Warren
  Nancy Warren is a Pacific Northwest author of contemporary romance novels. She received her first publication contract after winning Harlequin's 2000 Summer Blaze contest...
  
  
• Pat Warren
  Pat Warren
  Pat Warren is an American author of contemporary romance novels under her own name and the pseudonym Patricia Cox.At age 16, Warren began writing a column for the Akron Beacon Journal. As an adult, she wrote articles about marriage and motherhood for the Detroit News. In 1986, she sold a novel to...
  
  
• Wendy Warren
• Elsie B. Washington
  Elsie B. Washington
  Elsie Bernice Washington was an American author whose 1980 work Entwined Destinies has been considered the first romance novel written by an African-American author featuring African-American characters....
  
   (1942 – 2009) author (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles) of the 1980 book Entwined Destinies, considered the first romance novel
  Romance novel
  The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
  
   featuring African American
  African American
  African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
  
   characters written by an African American author.
• Shannon Waverly
  Shannon Waverly
  Shannon Waverly is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Waverly was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. Even as a child she enjoyed writing, and attempted to write her first novel when she was only 12. Unable to finish her novel, Waverly turned to short stories, submitting...
  
  
• Margaret Way
  Margaret Way
  Margaret Way is an Australian writer, and she is one of Mills & Boon's most prolific authors with more than 110 novels.-Biography:Margaret Way was born on 7 August in Brisbane, Australia...
  
  
• Joanna Wayne
  Joanna Wayne
  Jo Ann Vest is an American author of contemporary romance novels under the pseudonym Joanna Wayne.-Biography:Wayne was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. She began reading when she was four years old, and quickly began making weekly trips to the library to find books to read...
  
  
• Anne Weale
  Anne Weale
  Jay Blakeney was a British newspaper reporter, well-known as romance writer under the pseudonyms Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002...
  
  
• Carrie Weaver
  Carrie Weaver
  Not to be confused with Kerry Weaver, a character from the TV series ER.Carrie Weaver is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography :...
  
  
• Ingrid Weaver
  Ingrid Weaver
  -Biography:Weaver was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She has a degree in English literature. After her youngest child entered school in 1989 she began writing in the hopes that she could build a career that would allow her to work from home...
  
  
• Debra Webb
  Debra Webb
  Debra Webb is an American author of romantic suspense novels.-Biography:Debra Webb grew up on a farm outside Scottsboro, Alabama. Although her family was not wealthy, Webb cites her parents' hard work as teaching her "that I could be anything, do anything if I wanted it badly enough and was willing...
  
  
• Peggy Webb
  Peggy Webb
  Peggy Webb, née Peggy Elaine Hussey is an American author of romance novels.-Biography:Peggy Webb has born and raised on a farm in Lee County, Mississippi. As a child she would often sit in the hayloft and write down her stories. Her first publication came through her husband, the owner of a...
  
  
• Meredith Webber
  Meredith Webber
  Meredith Webber is the author of over 50 contemporary romance novels. Many of her novels have been published as part of Mills and Boon's Medical Romance line of category romances. Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages, including Icelandic....
  
  
• Tawny Weber
  Tawny Weber
  Tawny Weber is an American romantic fiction writer. Her books are published by Harlequin Blaze. Born in Idaho, she now lives in Northern California.-Biography:...
  
  
• Theresa Weir
• Sue-Ellen Welfonder
  Sue-Ellen Welfonder
  Sue-Ellen Welfonder, née MacDuffie is an American writer of romance novels. She is a USA Today bestselling author and the winner of a 2001 award from Romantic Times...
  
  
• Robin Wells
• Kate Welsh
  Kate Welsh
  Kate Welsh is an American author of contemporary romance novels.Welsh suffers from eye muscle problems that gave her difficulties in reading. Although she had never read a book for pleasure, her husband encouraged her to try to write a book...
  
  
• Sally Wentworth
  Sally Wentworth
  Sally Wentworth was the pseudonym used by Doreen Hornsblow , a British romance writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon's from 1977 to 1999.-Personal life:Doreen and her husband, Donald had a son, Keith...
  
  
• Sophie Weston
• Edith Wharton
  Edith Wharton
  Edith Wharton , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.- Early life and marriage:...
  
  
• Yvonne Whittal
  Yvonne Whittal
  Yvonne Whittal was a popular writer of 45 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1975 to 1992.-Single novels:*East to Barryvale *The Slender Thread *Devil's Gateway *Price of Happiness *Where Seagulls Cry...
  
  
• Mary Whistler
• Susan Wiggs
  Susan Wiggs
  Susan Wiggs is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.-Early years:Wiggs began writing as a child, finishing her first novel, A Book About Some Bad Kids, when she was eight. She temporarily abandoned her dream of being a novelist after graduating from Harvard University,...
  
  
• Jane Wilby
• Jennifer Wilde
• Lori Wilde
  Lori Wilde
  Lori Wilde is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She has also written under the name Laura Anthony.-Biography:Wilde 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...
  
   (also writes as Laura Anthony)
• Quinn Wilder
  Quinn Wilder
  Quinn Wilder is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Thirteen of her novels were published in Harlequin Romance line. Her novels have been translated into several languages, including Swedish.-Works:*That Man from Texas...
  
  
• Gina Wilkins
• Lee Wilkinson
  Lee Wilkinson
  Lee Wilkinson was a popular British writer of over 30 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1987.-Biography:Lee Wilkinson born in Nottingham, England, is the only child. She was educated at an all-girls' school....
  
  
• Gina Ferris Wilkins
  Gina Ferris Wilkins
  Gina Ferris Wilkins, née Vaughan is a best-selling American author of over 85 romance novels...
  
  
• Eileen Wilks
  Eileen Wilks
  Eileen Wilks is an American award-winning fiction writer living in Midland, Texas.- Biography :Wilks lives in the West Texas town of Midland, Texas, and has previously, as a child, lived in Canada and Venezuela as well as twelve U.S...
  
  
• Bronwyn Williams
• Cathy Williams
  Cathy Williams
  Cathy Williams is a British writer of romance novels in Mills & BoonWilliams was born on Trinidad in the West Indies. She lives in Chiswick London, England which her husband Richard and their three daughters; Charlotte, Olivia and Emma.-Single Novels:...
  
  
• Tammy Williams
  Tammy Williams
  Tammy Williams, is an American softball player who plays for the USA national softball team. She is Northwestern's softball team's all-time home run leader. Her natural position is shortstop.- College :...
  
  
• Penelope Williamson
• Penn Williamson
• Lauren Willig
  Lauren Willig
  Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love.-Biography:...
  
  
• Patricia Wilson
  Patricia Wilson
  Patricia Wilson was a popular writer of 53 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004.-Single novels:*The Final Price *Bride of Diaz *A Growing Suspicion *A Lingering Melody *Moment of Anger *Ortiga Marriage...
  
  
• Kathleen Winsor
  Kathleen Winsor
  Kathleen Winsor was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber.-Biography:Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California. At the age of 18, Winsor made a list of her goals for life. Among those was her hope to write a best-selling...
  
   (1919–2003)
• Violet Winspear
  Violet Winspear
  Violet Winspear was a British writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1961 to 1987....
  
  
• Anne Marie Winston
  Anne Marie Winston
  Anne Marie Rodgers is an American writer of romance novels as Anne Marie Winston. Many of her novels have appeared on the USAToday Bestseller lists and she has served as both vice-president and retreat chairman of the Washington Romance Writers....
  
  
• Rebecca Winters
• Linda Randall Wisdom
  Linda Randall Wisdom
  Linda Randall Wisdom is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Wisdom began writing in 1978 and sold her first two novels, Dancer in the Shadows and Fourteen Karat Beauty to Silhouette Romance in 1979...
  
  
• Joan Wolf
  Joan Wolf
  Joan Wolf is an American writer of romance novels.Wolf grew up in the Bronx, New York. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mercy College and Master in English and Comparative Literature in Hunter College.-Single novels:...
  
  
• Barbara Wood
  Barbara Wood
  Barbara Wood is an American writer of historical -romance novels.-Biography:Barbara Wood was born January 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England...
  
  
• Sara Wood
  Sara Wood (novelist)
  Sara Wood was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004.-Biography:Sara Wood was born in England in a poor family. She was a good student, but when was 16, she decided to take a secretarial course....
  
  
• Anne Woodard
• Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
• Sherryl Woods
  Sherryl Woods
  Sherryl Woods is an American writer of over 110 romance and mystery novels since 1982. She also signed her novels as Alexandra Kirk and Suzanne Sherrill.-Biography:...
  
  
• Victoria Woolf, (1937-October 8, 2000)
• Francesca Wright
• Laura Wright
  Laura Wright (author)
  -Biography:Wright was born in Minnesota. As an adult, she pursued a career as an actress, singer, and competitive ballroom dancer, teaching ballroom dancing and Latin dancing for over a decade. After many years of reading romance novels, Wright left dancing and attempted to write romantic fiction...
  
  
• Melinda Wright
• Laura Wylie
• Trish Wylie
  Trish Wylie
  Trish Wylie is an Irish author of category romance novels.-Biography:Wylie was born in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. As a teenager, Wylie voraciously read Harlequin romance novels and often told her friends that she would one day write for the publishing house...
  
  
• Pamela Wynne
  Pamela Wynne
  Pamela Wynne the author was a romantic novelist during the 1920s and 30's with a career lasting until her death in 1959.-Life:She was born with the name Winifred Mary Watson, London 1879. Her father Samuel was a solicitor in the City of London and Winifred was the fourth child born to Samuel and...
  
  

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