Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (* 10. October 1950 in Silver Spring , Maryland as Eleanor Marie Robertson ) is an American writer. She is considered one of the most successful romance writers in the world. In 1981 , Delia published her first social novel, Rote Rosen , and is now one of the most widely read authors worldwide. She also publishes under the pseudonyms J.D. Robb and Jill March , in Great Britain also under Sarah Hardesty .

biography

Nora Roberts was born as the only daughter and the youngest of five children. She attended a Catholic school for some time before she married and moved to Keedysville , Maryland . She worked as a secretary until the birth of her two sons Jason and Dan, after which she remained a housewife and mother. She married her second husband, Bruce Wilder, in 1985.

During a blizzard in 1979, she began writing her first novel Rote Rosen für Delia (original title: Irish Thoroughbred ), which was published in 1981. It now has a total print run of over 400 million copies; her books have been translated into 30 languages. In 1996, her hundredth story The Wide Sky (original title: Montana Sky ) was published. Every one of her books since 1999 has been a New York Times best seller, with 29 going straight to # 1 on the list.

She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and was the first female writer to enter the association's Hall of Fame . Other writers in her genre refer to her as The Nora .

Works

She writes a series of science fiction crime stories under the pseudonym JD Robb . While Nora Roberts is mostly associated with romantic, sometimes dramatic or mystical love and life stories, her pseudonym JD Robb stands for suspense literature. The In Death series is set in 21st century New York and is about police officer Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke. She got the initials "JD" from the first names of her two sons Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is an abbreviation for Roberts.

Many of her books are series or trilogies about families or friends, e.g. B. The Calhoun Women or The MacGregors .

Due to the repeated reprints of her books, first editions in the English original are marked with an NR logo .

Cinematic adaptations

Lifetime Television converted four of the writer's books into television films that were released in 2007:

From July 12, 2007, the films were broadcast on a weekly basis during prime time on ARD, starting with Nora Roberts - The Wide Sky . At the same time, the films were also released on DVD.

From 2009 Lifetime Television filmed other books by Nora Roberts:

The following books have been filmed in the past:

Plagiarism

In 1997 bestselling author Janet Dailey confessed to repeated copying of Nora Roberts' works. This came out when a reader compared Roberts's Sweet Revenge and Daileys Notorious . The two authors reached an agreement, and Dailey paid an undisclosed amount donated by Nora Roberts.

Web links

Commons : Nora Roberts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography at randomhouse.de (accessed on March 20, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robertson, Eleanor Marie (real name); Hardesty, Sarah (pseudonym); Robb, JD (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American romance writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Silver Spring , Maryland