Jackie Diamond Hyman Wilson | |
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Born | Jackie Diamond Hyman April 3, 1949 Menard, Texas, United States |
Pen name | Jacqueline Diamond, Jacqueline Topaz, Jacqueline Jade, Jackie Hyman, Jackie Diamond Hyman |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1982–present |
Genre | Romance |
Spouse | Kurt Wilson (1978–present) |
Children | 2 |
Website | |
jacquelinediamond |
Jackie Diamond Hyman (born April 3, 1949, in Menard, Texas, United States) is an American writer and former Associated Press reporter and columnist. Since 1982, she has written more than ninety novels in genres including romance, horror, fantasy and mystery under the pen names Jacqueline Diamond, Jacqueline Topaz, Jacqueline Jade, Jackie Hyman, and Jackie Diamond Hyman.
Jackie Diamond Hyman was born on April 3, 1949, in Menard, Texas, United States. She is the daughter of Maurice Hyman, M.D., former chief of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and ceramic sculptor Sylvia Hyman. [1]
Hyman was married in 1978 to Kurt Wilson and has two sons.
Hyman graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel and write in Europe.
After moving to Orange County, California, in 1972, she worked as a reporter and editor for The Orange Coast Daily Pilot and as a copy editor for the Orange County Register . She worked as a reporter and editor the Associated Press (AP) in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1983, and continued to write theater-related articles for the AP until 1999. In 1993–1994, she wrote a weekly television column for AP that was nationally distributed. She teaches short story, article and novel writing through Long Ridge Writers Group, and is the author of How to Write a Novel in One (Not-so-easy) Lesson.
She sold her first in 1982. [1] Her book publishers include Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, William Morrow, St. Martin's Press, Five Star Press, Walker and Company, DAW Books and Berkley Books. Since 2010, she has been reissuing her early novels, including Regency romances and mysteries, in digital editions.
Hyman is a former national board member of Romance Writers of America and has also served on the board of the Orange County, California chapter. [2] She is a two-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award and received a career achievement award from Romantic Times Book Club magazine.
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