Laura Jo Phillips. Elizabeth Moon. Sharon Sala. Linda Howard. Anne Bishop. Patricia C Wrede. Julie Garwood. Aka Emily Chase Julie was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri to a large Irish family. At the age of six, Julie had her tonsils removed and complications from the surgery resulted in a long period of recuperation. She fell hopelessly behind in school and never caught up. "I was a slow, slow reader," Julie says. Julie married young and had three children. Julie lives with her family in Leawood, Kansas. Patricia Briggs. Hurog: Home. Nora Roberts. (Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufem-Brinke Wilder) aka Sarah Hardesty, Jill March, J D Robb Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary.
"I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along. A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet. Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn't reading or making up stories. Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men.
Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry. Elizabeth Lowell.