Authors

Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest is a Canadian-born American writer, known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield.

8 books

Katherine Viner

1 book

Katherine Webb

1 book

Katherine Webber

2 books

Katherine Wigmore Eyre

1 book

Katherine Woodfine

1 book

Katherine Woodward Thomas

2 books

Katheryn Davis

1 book

Kathi Appelt

2 books

Kathi Appelt

3 books

Kathie DeNosky

27 books

Kathi Ferguson

1 book

Kathi Weeks

1 book

Kathleen A. Cruikshank

1 book

Kathleen Adams

1 book

Kathleen A. Harper

1 book

Kathleen Anne Martin

1 book

Kathleen Ann Goonan

1 book

Kathleen Arnott

1 book

Kathleen Baldwin

3 books

Kathleen Barber

1 book

Kathleen Barry

1 book

Kathleen Beck

2 books

Kathleen Benner Duble

1 book

Kathleen Bryan

Kathleen Bryan is one of the pseudonyms of Judith Tarr.

1 book

Kathleen Choe

1 book

Kathleen Creighton

Kathleen Creighton has deep roots in the California soil and still lives in the valley where her mother and grandmother were born. As a child, she enjoyed listening to old-timers’ tales, and her fascination with the past only deepened as she grew older. Today, she says, she is interested in everything- art, music, gardening, zoology, anthropology and history- but people are at the top of her list. She also has a lifelong passion for writing. With more than 50 books published, and two million copies sold, Kathleen Creighton has long been a powerhouse of the romance genre. Her books have earned her FIVE Rita awards, as well as a place in the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. A timeless author whose work continues to captivate, Kathleen is among the few remaining authors whose books still compete for space on the shelves of your local supermarket. Known for her disarming grace, Kathleen Creighton can be the guest of honor at an event in the evening, and then back on her California farm the next morning, helping to birth lambs or harvest crops. She writes from her heart, spending multiple hours each day developing characters, and exploring new avenues in which her love stories will flourish. He Loveswept classics have been re-released as modernized versions.

2 books

Kathleen Daelemans

1 book

Kathleen Derby

1 book

Kathleen Downes

1 book

Kathleen Drymon

1 book

Kathleen Drymon

4 books

Kathleen Duey

38 books

Kathleen DuVal

1 book

Kathleen Eagle

Kathleen Eagle is an award-winning writer whose books have been critical and commercial successes. Married to a Lakota Sioux, she often writes of the issues facing Native Americans today with a knowledgeable and deft touch. She lives with her husband in Minnesota.

14 books

Kathleen Ernst

15 books

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Kathleen Erin Hogg was born on June 3, 1939 in Alexandria, Louisiana, USA. She was the youngest of eight children of Charles Wingrove Hogg, a disabled World War I veteran, and his wife, Gladys Coker. As a child, she devoured fairy tales, later she relished creating her own stories, and by age six was telling herself stories at night to help fall asleep. When she was only twelve, her father died suddenly, leaving her to be raised by her mother and older sisters. Kathleen would later remark that, "every single one of us had minds of our own even then; I was no exception. I suppose that carried over into my creations of heroines who weren't weak-willed." At the age of sixteen, Kathleen met twenty-one years old U.S. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance for servicemen. They eloped a year later, and married on July 20, 1956. She continued in the school locally and graduated in 1957. In 1960, they had their first son Sean Alan, who was born in Alexandria. Her husband's military career led them to live in Japan, where they had their second and middle son, Dorren James in Tachikawa on August 8, 1962. Kathleen worked part-time as a fashion model for an American-owned modeling agency. She enjoyed fashion modeling, and later designing and creating many of her own gowns and costumes for numerous officer’s club functions that she attended with her husband. After three and a half years in Japan, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. During these years, she attempted to begin a novel several times, but each time stopped in frustration at the slow pace of writing a novel longhand. In 1968, finally the family instaled in Minnesota, where they had a large home on 55 acres (220,000 m2). They had their three and late son Heath Alexander, on 1970 in Minneapolis. Kathleen was an accomplished horse rider, who was the first rider/driver to have won both Amateur Pleasure Grand Championships with the same horse in the history of the Morgan Grand National Horse Show. After buying her husband an electric typewriter for a Christmas present, she appropriated the machine to begin her novel in earnest. Kathleen's first manuscript, was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers as being too long at 600 pages. Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, she instead submitted it to paperback publishers. The first publisher on her list, Avon, quickly purchased the novel. Legendary editor Nancy Coffey provided a $1500 advance and arranged for an initial 500,000 print run. "The Flame and the Flower" was revolutionary, featuring an epic historical romance with a strong heroine and actual sex scenes. This novel, published in 1972, sold over 2.3 million copies in its first four years of publication and is credited with spawning the modern romance genre, becoming the first romance novel "to follow the principals into the bedroom." The success of this novel prompted a new style of writing romance, concentrating primarily on historical fiction tracking the monogamous relationship between helpless heroines and the hero who rescued her, even if he had been the one to place her in danger. Kathleen sayd whose heroines always stay faithful to their seducers: "We like to fantasize about what we believe in, and I do believe in commitment." The romance novels which followed in her example featured longer plots, more controversial situations and characters, and more intimate and steamy sex scenes. Kathleen published only twelve romance novels and two novellas in thirty-three years, but her books are best-sellers with over thirty-six million copies in print. She often took four to five years to write a single novel. In some cases, she attributed the lag in publication time to personal and health issues, while in others she confessed to having suffered burnout and needing a rest to recover her interest in writing. Kathleen had a direct impact on the career of fellow novelist LaVyrle Spencer. Soon after finding her own success, she read a manuscript written by LaVyrle, who had yet to earn a publishing contract. Kathleen promptly mailed LaVyrle's novel to her own editor at Avon, and the editor purchased the novel, The Fulfillment. In addition, many modern romance novelists cite Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's books as their inspiration to write, like Virginia Henley, Betina Krahn, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kate Hoffmann and Julia Quinn. After her husband's death in 1996, Kathleen moved back to Louisiana, visiting frecuently her family in Minessota. On June 17, 2007, her son Dorren James Woodiwiss died unexpectedly, few days before her, who died at 68, on July 6, 2007 after a long and courageous battle with cancer at Fairview Northland Regional Hospital in Princeton.

18 books

Kathleen Fasanella

1 book

Kathleen Flinn

1 book

Kathleen French

1 book

Kathleen Fuller

2 books

Kathleen Garver Mastrian

1 book

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

4 books

Kathleen Givens

1 book

Kathleen Glasgow

American author

7 books

Kathleen Glasgow

Kathleen G. Nadeau

2 books

Kathleen Grissom

3 books

Kathleen Hague

1 book

Kathleen Hale

1 book