Nora Roberts
American Author
| Date of Birth | : | 10 Oct, 1950 |
| Place of Birth | : | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States |
| Profession | : | Author |
| Nationality | : | American |
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Nora Roberts is an American author of over 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb, Jill March and Sarah Hardesty. Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through". Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Although she had always made up stories in her head, Roberts did not write as a child, other than essays for school. She does claim to have "told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes." She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline.
Marriages life
During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to Montgomery Blair High School, where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. They married, against her parents' wishes, in 1968, as soon as she graduated, and settled in Boonsboro.
Roberts' husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. She gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason. Roberts would later refer to this time period as her "Earth Mother" years, when she did crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. The couple divorced in 1983.
Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985. Her husband owns Turn the Page Books bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland, and works as an adult content photographer and videographer. The couple also owned the nearby historic Boone Hotel. After it was destroyed by a fire in February 2008, it was restored and reopened as the Inn BoonsBoro in 2009; the suites were inspired by and named for literary romantic couples with happy endings.
She is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times.
Charity
Roberts has been included repeatedly on the Giving Back Fund's annual lists of the most philanthropic celebrities, with the bulk of her donations going to the Nora Roberts Foundation. The foundation financially supports organizations that promote literacy and the arts, assist children and engage in humanitarian efforts. The Foundation also endowed the Nora Roberts Center for American Romance at McDaniel College, which supports academic scholarship on the American romance novel, with special emphasis on the literary qualities and significance of the romance.
Quotes
Total 40 Quotes
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Life has very little even ground.
