Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her early schooling included several years in Catholic school. Though she jokes about the nuns, the award winning writer credits them with instilling in her the work ethic that has made her one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last twenty years. "…the fact is the discipline that they drum into education sticks. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't have the discipline to sit down and write on a regular basis, you're not going to write or publish any books."
Nora Roberts Quote
"You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder. That's not the way I work. I build a story."
"They're certainly not based on me—that would be boring. I'm not nearly as adventurous, brave or unselfish as any of my female leads. I don't know anyone that interesting either. My job is to make them up."
Novels by Nora Roberts: O'Hurley's Return, Black Rose, Northern Lights, Calhouns, MacKade Brothers, Reunion, Moon Shadows, Heaven and Earth, Heart of the Sea, Blue Dahlia, Macgregor Grooms, Winner Takes All, Gabriel's Angel; J. D. Robb: Visions in Death, Survivor in Death, Ceremony in Death, Rapture in Death, Witness in Death, Vengeance in Death, Immortal in Death, Glory in Death, Midnight in Death, Memory in Death.