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Phoebe Jane Conn | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 81–82) California |
| Pen name | Phoebe Conn, Cinnamon Burke |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Arizona California State University, Los Angeles (BA, MA) |
| Period | 1983–present |
| Genre | Romance |
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Phoebe Conn (born 1941 in California) is the maiden name and pseudonym of Phoebe Jane Conn, a best-selling American author of over thirty romance novels. She has also published one novel under the pseudonym Cinnamon Burke.
Phoebe Jane Conn was born in 1941 in California. She studied art at the University of Arizona, and graduated from California State University Los Angeles with a B.A. in art history, an Elementary Teaching Credential, and later, an MA in education. After graduation, Conn taught for many years.
Long an avid reader, Conn credits a Ricardo Montalbán commercial for Silhouette Romances for inspiring her to write her first book. Once the decision had been made, Conn outlined dozens of published romance novels to better understand how the genre was structured.
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Mary Balogh is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Saskatchewan, where she eventually became a school principal. Her debut novel appeared in 1985. Her historical fiction is set in the Regency era (1811–1820) or the wider Georgian era (1714–1830).
Johanna Helen Lindsey was an American writer of historical romance novels. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1.
Heather Graham Pozzessere is a best-selling American writer, who writes primarily romance novels. She also writes under her maiden name Heather Graham as well as the pen name Shannon Drake. She has written over 150 novels and novellas, has been published in approximately 25 languages, and has had over 75 million copies printed.
Jennifer Greene is one of the pseudonyms for Jill Alison Hart. She is a writer of over 85 romance novels since 1980. She has also written novels as Jeanne Grant and Jessica Massey, and uses the name Alison Hart as a business name for her writing.
Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates – and under the pseudonyms Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. She was married to Richard Holland. They had five children, including a set of twins: – Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland.
Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an American writer who was known as Diana Palmer and has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle.
Patricia Maxwell, born Patricia Anne Ponder on March 9, 1942, near Goldonna, Louisiana, is an American writer. A member of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and the Affaire de Coeur Romance Hall of Fame, Maxwell has received numerous awards for her writing. Her first novel in the romance genre, Love's Wild Desire, became a New York Times Bestseller.
Anne Mather is the pseudonym used by Mildred Grieveson, a popular British author of over 160 romance novels. She also signed novels as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming.
Cassie Edwards is a best-selling American author of over 100 historical romance novels. She has been published by Dorchester Publishing, Signet Books, Kensington Publishing and Harlequin.
Virginia Henley, is a British-Canadian writer of historical-romance novels. She is well known for her Medieval, Renaissance and other period piece romance novels.
Hannah Dustin Howell is a best-selling American author of over 40 historical romance novels. Many of her novels are set in medieval Scotland. She also writes under the names Sarah Dustin, Sandra Dustin, and Anna Jennet.
Janelle Taylor is an American author of historical romance novels.
Rosemary Rogers was a Sri Lankan Burgher best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her first book, Sweet Savage Love, was published in 1974. She was the second romance author, after Kathleen Woodiwiss, to have her novels published in trade paperback format. Both writers found their initial success working with editor Nancy Coffey who was then with Avon Books. Rogers is considered to be one of the founders of the modern historical romance, and many of today's writers cite her writing as one of their biggest influences. She lived in California.
Nancy Henderson Ryan (1936–2017) was an American writer of romance novels under her full name and as Nan Ryan.
Anne Ashurst, who wrote using the pseudonym Sara Craven, was a British author of over 80 romance novels. Her novels were published by Mills & Boon from 1975. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the 26th Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Sally Wentworth was the pseudonym used by Doreen Hornsblow, a British romance writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon's from 1977 to 1999.
Anne Hampson was a British writer of over 125 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1998. She published historical romance novels under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. Although she retired in 1998, in 2005 she published two romance and a crime novel. She has written an autobiography entitled Fate Was My Friend.
Mary Tate Engels is an American writer of almost thirty romance novels since 1982 as Tate McKenna and Mary Tate Engels. She has co-written five romance novels under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Vicki Lewis Thompson and two non-fiction books for Texas Tech University Press. She lives with her husband in Tucson, Arizona.
Ruth Ryan Langan was an American writer of romance novels. She is a New York Times Bestselling author of over one hundred novels, both historical and contemporary under the penname Ruth Langan. She also writes contemporary Western romantic suspense for Grand Central Publishing, as well as some novellas for Jove under the pseudonym R. C. Ryan.
Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes was a British writer of romance novels from 1974 to 2010. She wrote under her married and maiden names, and also under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore. She also wrote an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also published writing books.
