Authors
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Ann Evans
5 books
Anne Vinton
3 books
Anne Vittur Kennedy
1 book
Anne Waugh
1 book
Anne Weale
Jay Blakeney was born on 20 June 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines. At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation. Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience. When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year. She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books. She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on 24 October 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
77 books
Anne Wicke
1 book
Anne Worboys
Annette Isobel Eyre was born on 1920 in Auckland, New Zealand, daughter of Agnes Helen (Blair) and Thomas Edwardes Eyre. Before married, she served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, from 1942 to 1945. On 20 September 1946, she married Walter Brindy Worboys, and had two daughters, Carolyn and Robin. She wrote romance and suspense novels from 1961 to 1999, under the pennames of Anne Eyre Worboys, Annette Eyre, Vicky Maxwell and Anne Worboys. She won the Mary Elgin Award in 1975, and in 1977 by her novel "Every Man A King" the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Living in UK, Annette Isobel Eyre Worboys died on June 2007 in Leigh, Kent, England.
1 book
Anne Youngson
1 book
Anne Zeman
2 books
Ann Faraday
1 book
Ann Feitelson
1 book
Ann Ferebee
1 book
Ann Fessler
1 book
Ann Friedman
1 book
Ann Fullick
1 book
Ann Gadd
1 book
Ann Garrould
1 book
Ann Gibbons
1 book
Ann Goelitz
1 book
Ann Gostyn Serow
1 book
Ann Granger
Born in Portsmouth, Patricia Ann Granger studied modern languages, French and German at the University of London before working for the Foreign Office and receiving postings to British embassies across the world, including in Munich, Lusaka, Vienna, Zagreb and Belgrade. She met her husband John Hulme at the British Embassy in Prague, and later settled with her family in Bicester, Oxfordshire, where she began writing. In 1979 her first novel, a historical romance titled A POOR RELATION, was published under the name Ann Hulme. In 1991, Headline published her first crime novel as Ann Granger, SAY IT WITH POISON. (From Blake Friedmann obituary)
1 book
Ann Grifalconi
2 books
Ann Haggar
1 book
Ann Halam
2 books
Ann Handley
2 books
Ann Head
1 book
Ann Head
1 book
Ann Heinrichs
Ann Heinrichs is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults. They cover U.S. and world history and culture, science and nature, and English grammar. Ann has also enjoyed careers as a children‘s book editor and an advertising copywriter. An avid traveler, she has toured Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia. Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, she now lives in Chicago. She enjoys biking, kayaking, and flying kites. source
2 books
Ann Herbert Scott
2 books
Ann Herendeen
2 books
Ann Hodgman
Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.
4 books
Ann Hogue
2 books
Ann Hood
2 books
Ann Howard Creel
3 books
Ann Hughes
1 book
Ann Hulme
1 book
Ann Hurley
1 book
Anni Albers
1 book
Annibale Mottana
1 book
Anni Bergman
1 book
Annick Lionel-Marie
1 book
Annick Vincent
1 book
Annie Appleford
1 book
Annie Auerbach
3 books
Annie Bach
1 book
Annie Baker
1 book
Annie Barrows
Annie Barrows
writer
14 books
Annie Berthold-Bond
1 book
Annie Billups
1 book