Nora Roberts was born on October 10,1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children.
29 Facts About Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts's family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life.
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Nora Roberts' husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company.
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Nora Roberts gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason.
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Nora Roberts became a homemaker and would later refer to this time period as her "Earth Mother" years.
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Nora Roberts spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes.
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Nora Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985.
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Nora Roberts's husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called Turn the Page Books.
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Rather than begin with an outline or plot summary, Nora Roberts instead envisions a key incident, character, or setting.
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Nora Roberts then writes a short first draft that has the basic elements of a story.
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Nora Roberts often writes trilogies, finishing the three books in a row so that she can remain with the same characters.
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Nora Roberts is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times.
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Nora Roberts began to write during a blizzard in February 1979 while housebound with her two small boys.
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Nora Roberts submitted her manuscripts to Harlequin, the leading publisher of romance novels, but was repeatedly rejected.
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Nora Roberts found a home at Silhouette, where her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981.
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Nora Roberts used the pseudonym Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson because she assumed that all romance authors had pen names.
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Between 1982 and 1984, Nora Roberts wrote 23 novels for Silhouette.
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Nora Roberts reached the hardcover bestseller lists with her fourth hardcover release, 1996's Montana Sky.
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Nora Roberts and her career were featured in Pamela Regis' A Natural History of the Romance Novel.
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Nora Roberts had long wanted to write romantic suspense novels in the vein of Mary Stewart, but, at the urging of her agent, she concentrated on classic contemporary romance novels while she built a following of readers.
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In 1996, Nora Roberts passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky and, in 2012, doubled that with The Witness.
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In 2001, Nora Roberts had 10 best-selling mass-market paperbacks, according to Publishers Weekly, not counting those books written under the JD Robb name.
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In September 2001, for the first time Nora Roberts took the numbers 1 and 2 spots on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, as her romance Time and Again was number one, and her JD Robb release Seduction in Death was number two.
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Since 1999, every one of Nora Roberts's novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and 124 of her novels have ranked on the Times bestseller list, including 29 that debuted in the number-one spot.
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Nora Roberts admitted that both Aspen Gold and Notorious lifted heavily from Roberts' work.
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Nora Roberts donated the settlement to various literary causes including the Literacy Volunteers of America.
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Nora Roberts joined the chorus strongly criticizing fellow romance writer Cassie Edwards, who had lifted many passages from much older sources without giving credit, forcing Edwards out of the business.
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In 2019 Nora Roberts, along with other authors, was a victim of plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya.
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Several of Nora Roberts' books have been adapted into made-for-TV movies and aired on Lifetime.