Lauryn Chandler | |
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Pen name | Wendy Warren |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1993–present |
Genre | Romance |
Lauryn Chandler is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She has also written under the pseudonym Wendy Warren. [1]
Chandler has twice been the recipient of the highest honor given to romance novelists, the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award. Both of her wins came in the category Best Traditional Romance, in 1997 for her novel Her Very Own Husband and in 1995 for Oh, Baby!'. [2] She has also been twice nominated for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. [3]
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