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LaVyrle Spencer


Born
in Browerville, Minnesota, The United States
July 17, 1943

Genre
Romance, Historical Fiction


LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988.

Spencer is known for creating realistic characters and stories that focus on families rather than only the relationship between a man and woman. These "ordinary" men and women are warm and vulnerable and are always portrayed sympathetically.[1] Her heroines tend to be a mix of fire and warmth, strength, savvy and soft–heartedness who must overcome some sort of adversity, such as pregnancy, divorce, a lengthy separation ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 100,991 ratings · 6,526 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors
Morning Glory
4.27 avg rating — 17,121 ratings — published 1989 — 68 editions
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Separate Beds
3.92 avg rating — 7,544 ratings — published 1985 — 44 editions
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Small Town Girl
3.93 avg rating — 7,019 ratings — published 1997 — 41 editions
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Family Blessings
4.10 avg rating — 5,837 ratings — published 1993 — 28 editions
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That Camden Summer
3.95 avg rating — 6,007 ratings — published 1996 — 56 editions
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Years
4.21 avg rating — 5,355 ratings — published 1986
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The Endearment
4.04 avg rating — 5,006 ratings — published 1982 — 37 editions
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Hummingbird
4.04 avg rating — 4,706 ratings — published 1983
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Bitter Sweet
4.07 avg rating — 4,372 ratings — published 1868 — 264 editions
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The Gamble
4.14 avg rating — 3,757 ratings — published 1984 — 32 editions
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“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, The Endearment
tags: life
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“She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, Hummingbird
tags: abbie, jesse, love
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“Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, Morning Glory
tags: eleanor, will
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