Rebecca Boado-Rosas | |
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Born | Rebecca Boado DOB unknown |
Pen name | Rebecca Paisley |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1990–2016 |
Genre | Romance |
Rebecca Boado-Rosas is an American author of romance novels who wrote as Rebecca Paisley. [1]
Boado-Rosas began writing at a young age beginning with letters to her grandmother and poems to her sister.
She was inspired by her father, Emil Edward Boado. Major Boado was a pilot with the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the United States Air Force, and died in Thailand during the Vietnam war.
Boado-Rosas published nine novels and four novellas from 1990 to 1997, and two further novels in 2015, under her pseudonym Rebecca Paisley.
On June 22, 2017, it was reported that the violent death of Boado-Rosas's adult daughter, a resident of Texas, was under investigation by the Austin Police Department. [2]
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