Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her education included some time at a Catholic school. She married young, and lived in Keedysville, Maryland. For a while she worked as a legal secretary, but started to stay at home after the birth of her sons.

She began writing during a blizzard in 1979, and her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, appeared in 1981, published by Silhouette.

She met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985.

Nora Roberts has won several awards, and is a member of many writers' groups. She also writes under the pseudonym "J.D. Robb". The initials were taken from Ms Roberts’ sons, Jason and Dan, while Robb is a shortened form of Roberts.