Rita Gallagher a founding member of the Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America

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, 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

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...

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Biography

Rita Gallagher was born in 1922. She was a Miss Michigan, and married to a U.S. Air Force pilot. She is the mother of the writer Rita Clay Estrada. They and others writers created the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.).

From 1982 to 1986, she published three romance novels, and later was a writing instructor for romance novelists. She also published with her daughter the books: "Writing Romances" and "You Can Write a Romance".

Rita died February 1, 2004 in Houston at age 82.

Non fiction

• Writing Romances (1997) (with 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...
  
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• You Can Write a Romance (1999) (with 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...
  
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