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Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts American romance novelist Nora Roberts, 2018.

Nora Roberts

American novelist
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Nora Roberts (born October 10, 1950, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.) is an American romance novelist who is one of the most successful and prolific authors of the genre. As a child, Roberts was an avid reader and frequently formulated her own stories. After graduating from high school, she married and later had two sons. Confined to her home with her young children during a blizzard in 1979, she penned her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred (1981)....

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