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Biography
Roberts was born the only daughter and the youngest of five children in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her education included some time at a Catholic school before she married and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. For a while she worked as a legal secretary but stayed at home after the birth of her two sons.
She began writing during a blizzard in February 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 futuristic 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 from her sons, Jason and Dan, while “Robb” is a shortened form of Roberts.
Roberts is famously prolific—in 1996 she passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky. Since 1999, every one of Roberts’s novels has been a New York Times bestseller. 124 of her novels have ranked on the New York Times bestseller list, including twenty-nine that debuted in the number one spot. Her books have ranked in the number one position on the NYT Bestseller list for a combined 90 weeks. Roberts writes eight hours a day, every day, and even works on vacation.
Many readers and scholars of romance fiction attribute the transformation of the romance heroine into a strong female figure in part to Roberts’ ability to develop characters and to tell a good story.
Roberts does much of her research over the internet, as she has an aversion to flying.
Other romance authors jokingly refer to Roberts as “The Nora”.
Lifetime Television is adapting four Nora Roberts novels into TV movies for release in 2007: Angel’s Fall, Montana Sky, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon. Her novels Sanctuary, and Magic Moments had previously been made into TV movies.
