LaVyrle Spencer was born on July 17,1943 and is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels.
17 Facts About LaVyrle Spencer
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LaVyrle Spencer has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies.
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Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988.
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LaVyrle Spencer was born on July 17,1943, in Browerville, Minnesota, where she was raised.
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Shortly after her high school graduation LaVyrle Spencer married her high school sweetheart Dan LaVyrle Spencer.
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LaVyrle Spencer decided to try transferring to paper a recurring dream she was having about a story based on her grandmother's lifestyle on a Minnesota farm.
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LaVyrle Spencer sent her manuscript to best-selling novelist Kathleen E Woodiwiss, who read it and promptly mailed it to her own editor at Avon.
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LaVyrle Spencer opined that "drama happens within, in the emotional impact on the characters," and refused to dramatically rewrite the book.
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Avon likewise rejected LaVyrle Spencer's third book, The Endearment, about a mail-order bride and her husband, who, unlike most heroes, was a virgin.
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LaVyrle Spencer later stopped writing these shorter novels because she was disappointed with the short shelf life, generally only one month, allotted to the category romance.
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LaVyrle Spencer's novels were highly successful, consistently selling over 1.5 million copies in paperback and over 400,000 copies in hardcover.
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LaVyrle Spencer told Publishers Weekly that she had always intended to write until she reached a set financial goal, at which point she would retire in order to travel and spend time with her family.
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LaVyrle Spencer is known for creating realistic characters and stories that focus on families rather than only the relationship between a man and woman.
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LaVyrle Spencer's heroines tend to be a mix of fire and warmth, strength, savvy and tenderheartedness who must overcome some sort of adversity, such as pregnancy, divorce, a lengthy separation, the loss of a loved one, and then undergo a catharsis.
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LaVyrle Spencer's books have been sold to book clubs worldwide, and have been published around the world.
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LaVyrle Spencer has won five Romance Writers of America RITA Awards, the highest award presented to romance novelists.
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LaVyrle Spencer won a RITA Award in 1990 for Best Romance of 1989 for her romance Morning Glory.