Madeline Harper

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Madeline Porter and Shannon Harper
Pen nameElizabeth Habersham
Anna James
Madeline Harper
Occupation Novelist
NationalityAmerican
Period1977–1997
Genre Romantic novel

Madeline Harper may be the best-known joint pen name of the American writing team Madeline Porter and Shannon Harper. They wrote together from 1977, when their first book, a Gothic romance, was published as by Elizabeth Habersham, to 1997. They also wrote together under the name Anna James.

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Biography

Madeline Porter lives in Newport Beach, California, where she is assistant publicity director for the award-winning South Coast Repertory Theater. Shannon Harper lives in Winter Haven, Florida. During their partnership, Madeline and Shannon have lived on opposite coasts of U.S., and they collaborated via the mail, fax machines and their computers.

Awards

As Anna James

Books written by Porter and Harper

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