Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, is an American novelist who has written more than 225 books. She writes romance under her own name and romantic suspense as J. D. Robb; she has also published as Jill March and Sarah Hardesty in the UK.
Roberts began writing in 1979 during a blizzard. Her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, appeared in 1981 with Silhouette Books, and she later published many romance titles. In 1995 she started the J. D. Robb series, a futuristic police procedural about Eve Dallas and Roarke; as of 2022, there are 54 In Death novels and ten novellas.
Her books have sold hundreds of millions of copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for decades. She is a founding member of the Romance Writers of America, has won numerous awards including the RWA Hall of Fame and 21 Rita Awards, and several of her works have been made into Lifetime TV movies.
Roberts lives in Boonsboro, Maryland, with her husband Bruce Wilder. They run Turn the Page Books and the Inn BoonsBoro. She writes with discipline, often eight hours a day, and sometimes writes trilogies back-to-back. She has two sons from her first marriage. She has faced plagiarism controversies, and supports literacy through the Nora Roberts Foundation and the Nora Roberts Center for American Romance at McDaniel College.
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