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Jessica Rowley Pell Bird , pseudonym : JR Ward (* 1969 in Massachusetts , New England ) is an American author who writes under her maiden name Jessica Bird as well as under her pseudonym.

Life and accomplishments

She is the daughter of W. Gillette Bird jun. and the architectural draftsman Maxine F. Bird. After graduating from Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) and its degree of law at Albany Law School in Albany Bird received a qualified lawyer admission for two US states. She then worked in the healthcare sector, where she headed the human resources department at the Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts .

With her husband Neville Blakemore, whom she married on October 6, 2001 in Barnstable ( Barnstable County , Massachusetts), she lived in Cambridge (Massachusetts) until 2003 . He was the owner of Bluegrass Consulting , a corporate consultancy in Cambridge. She left New England in August 2003 and has since lived in Louisville (Kentucky) (USA), the birthplace of her husband, who is a partner in the investment company Nova Group Investments .

Bird started writing at the age of ten and wrote her first romance novel as a teenager. At the urging of her husband and mother, she turned to an agent and published her first novel in 2002, the love story Leaping Hearts (Ivy Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8041-1988-0 ). Today she is in the USA and Europe, one of the most successful bestselling authors for the mixture of “ mystery ” and “romance”. Under the pseudonym JR Ward she writes a. a. the vampire series Black Dagger .

She is also a board member of Fort Ticonderoga , a private military museum in Ticonderoga , New York . The ruins of the fort were bought in 1820 by their ancestor, the New York merchant William Ferris Pell (1779–1840), then restored by the Pell family and opened to the public in 1909.

Works

The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

  1. Dark Lover (September 2005) - Night Hunt (Part 1) and Blood Sacrifice (Part 2)
  2. Lover Eternal (March 2006) - Eternal love (Part 1) and fratricidal war (Part 2)
  3. Lover Awakened (September 2006) - Moon Trail (Part 1) and Dark Awakening (Part 2)
  4. Lover Revealed (March 2007) - Human Child (Part 1) and Vampire Heart (Part 2)
  5. Lover Unbound (September 2007) - Soul Hunter (Part 1) and Killing Curse (Part 2)
  6. Lover Enshrined (June 2008) - Bloodlines (Part 1) and Vampire Dreams (Part 2)
  7. The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide (October 2008) - The Black Dagger Brotherhood: A World Guide from JR Ward's BLACK DAGGER
  8. Lover Avenged (April 2009) - Vengeance Angel (Part 1 April 2010) and Blind King (Part 2 August 2010)
  9. Lover Mine (April 2010) - Vampire Soul (Part 1 November 2010) and Moon Oath (Part 2 February 2011)
  10. Lover Unleashed (March 2011) - Vampire Oath (Part 1 November 2011) and Night Soul (Part 2 February 2012)
  11. Lover Reborn (March 2012) - Liebesmond (Part 1 November 2012) and Shadow Dream (Part 2 February 2013)
  12. Lover at Last (March 2013) - Prince of Souls (Part 1 2013) and Son of Darkness (Part 2 2014)
  13. The King (April 2014) - Nachtherz (Part 1 November 2014) and Königsblut (Part 2 February 2015)
  14. The Shadows (March 2015) - Captive Heart (Part 1 November 2015) and Unleashed Heart (Part 2 March 2016)
  15. The Beast (April 2016) - Warriors in the Shadows (Part 1 October 2016) and Forever Loved (Part 2 March 2017)
  16. The Chosen (April 2017) - The Chosen One (Part 1 December 2017) and The Outcast (Part 2 March 2018)
  17. The Thief (2018)

Black Dagger Legacy

  1. Blood Kiss (December 2015) - Kiss of the Dawn (May 2016)
  2. Blood Vow (December 2016) - Dance of the Blood (July 2017)
  3. Blood Fury (January 2018) - Wrath of the Beloved (June 2018)

Fallen Angels

  • Covet (September 2009) - The Arrival (February 2010)
  • Crave (October 2010) - The Demon (March 2011)
  • Envy (September 2011) - The Rebel (June 2012)
  • Rapture (September 2012) - The Desire (June 2013)
  • Possession (October 2013) - The Temptation (June 2014)
  • Immortal (2014) - The Final Battle (May 2015)

The Bourbon King Series

  • The Bourbon Kings (July 2015) - Bourbon Kings (January 2017)
  • The Angel's Share (July 2016) - Bourbon Sins (June 2017)
  • Devil's Cut (August 2017) - Bourbon Lies (November 2017)

Further

  • Vampire Son: Novella (January 10, 2011)

Awards

  • 2007: Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for her Black Dagger book Lover Awakened (Penguin Group (USA), 2006, ISBN 9780451219367 )
  • 2007: RITA Award from the writers' association " Romance Writers of America " in the category "Best Short Contemporary Romance" for their book From the First (Verlag Silhouette Books, January 2006, ISBN 9780373247509 )

She has been nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award several more times. She last made it to the finals of the RITA Award in 2008 with her novel Lover Revealed (Onyx Books, 2007, ISBN 9780451412355 ) .

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personal data
SURNAME Bird, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, JR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Massachusetts , New England