Dee Henderson

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Dee Henderson
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS)
Genre Christian fiction
Notable awards RITA Award (2000)
Website
www.deehenderson.com

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]

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Personal life

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]

Awards

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.

Published works

O'Malley Series

Uncommon Heroes

Stand alones

Evie Blackwell Cold Case

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References

  1. "Woman authors New York Times Best Seller" Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois), November 20, 2012, p. 13
  2. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-07. Retrieved 2014-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Hilliard |, Juli Cragg. "Dee Henderson: What to Say About God". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  5. "Dee Henderson: Back with Full Disclosure". 26 September 2012.
  6. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  7. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  8. "For Christian Fiction Editors, It's Complicated". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  9. "FL Public Library Adds new romance author," Daily Citizen (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) 15 Mar 2001, p. 14