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| Born | October 22, 1948 Whitewright, Texas, U.S. |
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Carolyn Louise Brown (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance and women's fiction. She has written more than 100 novels, 8 novellas, and has contributed to multiple anthologies.
Carolyn Brown was born in Whitewright, Texas, on October 22, 1948, and raised in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. She sold her first two books to Kensington Publishing Company in 1997.
Brown's books have sold more than 6 million copies. She is a New York Times , [1] [2] USA Today , [3] Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal [4] bestselling author. Her books have also been reviewed by USA Today and Publishers Weekly. [5] [6] Brown has been published by Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Avalon Books, Kensington, and Grand Central. In 2012, she was nominated for the RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance for The Ladies Room. [7] In 2020, Brown was a HOLT Medallion finalist for Novel with Romantic Elements for The Family Journal. [8]
Brown now writes full time in Davis, Oklahoma, where she lives with her husband. [9]
Bandera is a town in Bandera County, Texas, United States. The county seat, it lies in the Texas Hill Country, a part of the Edwards Plateau located at the crossroads of the central, southern, and western parts of the state, The population was 829 at the 2020 census. approximately 40 miles northwest of San Antonio and 90 miles southwest of Austin, the state capital.
A honky-tonk is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments. It can also refer to the type of piano used to play such music. Bars of this kind are common in the South and Southwest United States. Many eminent country music artists, such as Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, and Merle Haggard, began their careers as amateur musicians in honky-tonks.
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