Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is a best-selling author of romantic novels. She was the first author to be inducted into The Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame

Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her education included some time at a Catholic school. She married young, and lived in Keedysville, Maryland. For a while she worked as a legal secretary, but started to stay at home after the birth of her sons.

She began writing during a blizzard in 1979, and her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, appeared in 1981, published by Silhouette. She met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985.

Under the pseudonym "J.D. Robb", Roberts also writes the "In Death" series of science fiction police procedurals. They feature NYPSD Detective Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke and are set in a mid-21st century New York City. The initials "J.D." were taken her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.

Roberts is famously prolific, with as many as seven new novels released in a year; within the community of romance authors she is sometimes jokingly called "The Nora". She has stated that her amazing bibliography is partly due to the fact that she consistently writes eight hours per day, even when on vacation.


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