Nora Roberts

About

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance published under her own name. She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and (in the U.K.) Sarah Hardesty.

Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as “an Irishwoman through and through”. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Although she had always imagined stories from childhood, Roberts did not write in her youth other than essays for school. She does claim to have “told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes.” She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline.

During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to Montgomery Blair High School, where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. They married, against her parents’ wishes, in 1968, as soon as she graduated, and…