Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.
Company's Coming is a popular line of cookbooks that has sold over 30 million copies since 1981. The series is produced by Company's Coming Publishing Limited based in British Columbia, and distributed from Edmonton, Alberta. The series was written by Jean Paré.
Ruth Glick is an American writer of cookbooks, romance and young adult novels. She has written novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York; until 1997 these were written in collaboration with Eileen Buckholtz.
Lori Foster is an American romance novelist. She also writes urban fantasy novels under the name L.L. Foster. Since publishing her first book in 1996, Foster has become a USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times bestselling author. She has published through a variety of houses, but is currently with Harlequin.
Nicole Jordan is a best-selling American author of romance novels. Jordan's historical romances have appeared on best-seller lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks, and Amazon.com. She has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award and a runner-up for RWA's Favorite Book of the Year. Jordan has won the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for best historical. Jay Leno pretended to read aloud her novel Touch Me With Fire during a skit on The Tonight Show.
Laura Abbot is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels in the Harlequin Superromance and Love Inspired Historical series.
Jaclyn Reding is an American writer of historical romance novels. She has been a Golden Quill Awards winner and the author of an Amazon.com's #1 bestseller. She also is a National Readers' Choice Awards finalist and has received a nomination for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.
Harper Allen is a Canadian writer of contemporary and fantasy romance novels since 1998.
Loretta Chase, née Loretta Lynda Chekani is an American writer of romance novels since 1987.
Tanya Anne Crosby is a Spanish-American writer of romance novels. A New York Times bestselling author, she is a five-time nominee for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her novels have been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Russian and Chinese.
Julia London is the pen name of Dinah Dinwiddie, an American writer of romance novels.
Nancy Henderson Ryan was an American writer of romance novels under her full name and as Nan Ryan.
Laura Kinsale is an American writer of historical romance novels since 1985.
Sue-Ellen Welfonder is an American writer of romance novels. She is a USA Today bestselling author and the winner of a 2001 award from Romantic Times. Under her married name she writes historical romances set in medieval Scotland, and as Allie Mackay she writes Scottish-set paranormal romances.
{{Infobox writer | image = | name = Laura Wright | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = March 12, 1970 | birth_place = Minnesota, U.S. | occupation = Novelist | nationality = American | period = 2002–present | genre = [[Romance novel][Women's Fiction] | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | spouse = Daniel Ionazzi | children = 2 Isabella Ionazzi; Lucca Ionazzi | influenced = | website = www.laurawright.com }} Laura Wright is an American author of romance novels.
Diana Schutz is a Canadian-born comic book editor, serving as editor in chief of Comico during its peak years, followed by a 25-year tenure at Dark Horse Comics. Some of the best-known works she has edited are Frank Miller's Sin City and 300, Matt Wagner's Grendel, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, and Paul Chadwick's Concrete. She was known to her letter-column readers as "Auntie Dydie". She was an adjunct instructor of comics history and criticism at Portland Community College.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (EQMM) honors authors each year as voted upon by readers, hence the name, Readers Choice Award. Recipients include many of the most popular authors of thrillers and mysteries.
Terry Spear born in Sacramento, California, is an American author who specializes in writing paranormal romance novels and medieval romance novels for both adults and teen audiences. Her werewolf paranormal romance series started with Heart of the Wolf which Publishers Weekly named as one of their Best Books of the Year, 2008. She is also the author of the jaguar shifter series, Heart of the Jaguar which started in 2012 with the novel Savage Hunger and the cougar shifter series, Heart of Cougar which is self-published.
Melissa Schroeder is an American writer of romance fiction. She has been published since 2004. Her publishers include Samhain Publishing, Siren Publishing, Ellora's Cave, Liquid Silver Books and Whiskey Creek Press. She has also self-published works. She made the USA Today Bestseller list in September 2013 with her book, The Santinis Collection and again in November 2013 with Uniform Desires.
Asuka Oda is a Japanese actress, gravure idol, and tarento. Her real name is unpublished.
