Mariah Stewart

{{short description|American novelist}}

Mariah Stewart is an American author of romantic fiction whose titles have appeared on the New York Times and

USA Today bestsellers lists. Stewart's books have won, or been nominated for, various major awards, including three-time recipient of the New Jersey Romance Writers' (NJRW) Golden Leaf Awards for The President's Daughter (Best Single Title Romance 2002),[http://www.mariahstewart.com/books.html Official website] Voices Carry (Best Single Title Romance 2001), and for her very first novel, Moments in Time (Best Contemporary Novel 1998).[http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=73&pid=600867&agid=25 Simon & Schuster: Mariah Stewart] NJRW also awarded Stewart a Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted her into their Hall of Fame.Source: Found in Stewart's biography on many big bookseller sites, including [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0345492242 Barnes and Noble] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125932/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0345492242 |date=2007-09-29 }}, [http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345492241 Random House] and [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Look-Suspense-Mariah-Stewart/dp/0345492226 Amazon].

Other awards include the Reviewers International Organization Award of Excellence for Priceless (Favorite Contemporary Romance 1999),[http://www.rio-reviewers.com/rae/index.html Reviewers International Organization Award of Excellence 1998-2006 index] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821065945/http://www.rio-reviewers.com/rae/index.html |date=2007-08-21 }} the Reviewers Choice Awards from Romantic Times for Moon Dance (Best Contemporary Romance 1999),[http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards past awards and nominations index] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418002017/http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php |date=2010-04-18 }} and the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence for A Different Light (Best Single Title 1995).[http://ivyauthors.com/mariahstewart.html Ballantine-Ivy Authors, Mariah Stewart]

Stewart is a New Jersey native. She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian country home" with their daughters and Golden Retrievers.[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/mariah-stewart/ Fantastic Fiction]