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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. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no
kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate.
Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a
time that she wasn't reading or making up stories.
During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and
notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that
a career was born. Several
manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred,
was published by Silhouette in 1981.
Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired
him to build bookshelves. They
were married in July 1985. Since
that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a
bookstore together.
Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by
men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the
only girl. She has raised
two sons. Having spent her
life surrounded by men has given Ms. Roberts a fairly good view of the
workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers.
It was, she's been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring
men out or running away screaming.
Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won
countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.
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