Nora Roberts Biography

About Nora Roberts

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, Ms. Roberts has 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. Recently The New Yorker called her "America’s favorite novelist."

Books

Trilogy and Series Books
The Bride Quartet
Vision in White
Bed of Roses
Savor the Moment
Happy Ever After

Born In Trilogy
Born in Fire
Born in Ice
Born in Shame

Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy
Jewels of the Sun
Tears of the Moon
Heart of the Sea

Key Trilogy
Key of Light
Key of Knowledge
Key of Valor

Sign of Seven Trilogy
Blood Brothers
The Hollow
The Pagan Stone

The Circle Trilogy
Morrigan’s Cross
Dance of the Gods
Valley of Silence

In the Garden Trilogy
Blue Dahlia
Black Rose
Red Lily

Three Sisters Island Trilogy
Dance Upon air
Heaven and Earth
Face the Fire

Chesapeake Bay Saga
Sea Swept
Rising Tides
Inner Harbor
Chesapeake Blue
The Quinn Brothers (books 1 and 2)
The Quinn Legacy (books 3 and 4)

Dream Trilogy
Daring to Dream
Holding the Dream
Finding the Dream

Stand Alone Novels
Black Hills
Tribute
High Noon
Angels Fall
Blue Smoke
Spellbound
Northern Lights
Lovers and Dreamers
Moon Shadows
A Little Fate
Remember When
Birthright
Irish Born
Once Upon a Midnight
Three Fates
Midnight Bayou
Once Upon a Kiss
The Villa
A Little Magic
Once Upon a Rose
The Complete Novels: True Betrayals, Montana Sky, Sanctuary
Carolina Moon
Once Upon a Dream
Three Complete Novels: Honest Illusions, Private Scandals, Hidden Riches
River’s End
Once Upon a Star
The Reef
Homeport
Sanctuary
Once Upon a Castle
Montana Sky
From the Heart
True Betrayals
Hidden Riches
Private Scandals
Honest Illusions

About Nora Roberts