Dee Henderson | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS) |
| Genre | Christian fiction |
| Notable awards | RITA Award (2000) |
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Dee Henderson is an American author of Christian fiction novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on The New York Times Best Seller list. [1]
Dee Henderson is a lifelong inhabitant of Illinois, currently residing in Springfield. She is the daughter of a pastor and started writing as a child. [2] Henderson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1988 with a B.S. in computer science [3] and worked for a decade as an engineer before starting to publish professionally. [4] She started writing fiction for publication in 1996. [5] Henderson is single and enjoys painting, reading, walking around her subdivision, and spending time with her dogs. [6] She still attends church at her childhood church. [7] Publishers Weekly described Henderson one of the "bestselling and perennial favorites" published by Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group. [8]
Henderson has won or been nominated for various writing awards including: Romance Writers of America's RITA Award, the Christy Award, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Readers' Choice Award, [9] and the Golden Quill.
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