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The Official Nora Roberts Companion

by Nora Roberts, Julie Garwood (Foreword), Denise Little (Editor), Loren Hayden (Editor)

4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 · rating details · 444 ratings · 8 reviews

With insights into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's life, work and career —and little-known facts about her most popular novels —this beautifully designed book celebrates Nora Roberts's enduring legacy of powerful, passionate storytelling.

The books: a complete, cross-referenced list of Roberts's books—with trivia, quotes, and family trees

The career: a timeline...more

Trade Paperback, 463 pages

Published October 7th 2003 by Berkley Trade (first published October 4th 2003)

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May 29, 2008 Isis FG rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Nora Roberts fans

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A helpful resource for Nora Roberts fans. There are a lot of extras, lots of random info. The family trees for the various family series are nice. The one thing that could have been done better was the book section where all of Nora's books are listed - especially the summaries. They are mostly just one sentence long, which really tells you hardly anything. A little more there would have greatly improved the book area. But overall, a fairly good resource for those who are fanatics about Nora's b...more

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Mar 27, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-and-poetry

With insights into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's life, work and career —and little-known facts about her most popular novels —this beautifully designed book celebrates Nora Roberts's enduring legacy of powerful, passionate storytelling.

The books: a complete, cross-referenced list of Roberts's books—with trivia, quotes, and family trees

The career: a timeline of Roberts's career, with a list of major milestones and quotes from some of her best reviews

The fans: inspiring true stories o...more

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Jun 16, 2010 Susan Bischoff rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've really enjoyed the heck out of this book. It's full of all kinds of interesting tidbits about La Nora, and I've found the listing of her books, and all their different editions and compilations(!), to be invaluable in figuring out what I've acquired and read and what I haven't. I'd recommend it if you're a fan or just think you're in a Nora "phase".

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Nov 22, 2010 Lynne Tull rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Reference Book...comes in handy, but gets out of date quickly..

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Aug 15, 2010 Colleen added it

this book gave me a list of most of Nora Roberts books

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Sep 03, 2010 ReadingWench rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, non-fiction

This is a great reference book for any Nora Roberts fan. Published in 2003, it is not a complete guide, but still very useful and filled with trivia, and little known facts about her books.

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Apr 13, 2008 Christyna Hunter rated it 4 of 5 stars

Good reference book. Was excited to find out that one of the fan letters printed in the book was mine!

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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sopho...more aka
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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year in high school, she transferred to a local public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future first husband.

In Augusy 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated from High School, Eleanor married, against her parents' wishes. The marriage settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Her husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. While, 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 their sons, Dan and Jason, were born she stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the divorce in January 1985.

In February 1979, a blizzard in 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. 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 as Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson, because she assumed that all authors had pen names.

Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love".

Eleanor met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page Books". Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world.

In 1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish a futuristic-suspense novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym D.J. MacGregor, but she discovered that this pseudonym was used by another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was published under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the initials "J.D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.

Eleanor has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In" series was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers.

Eleanor has been plagiarized by another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The practice came to light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge" and Janet Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet, admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both "Aspen Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora Roberts's work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Janet's admission. She acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological disorder. In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.

A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the (less)

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