Nora Roberts#J. D. Robb

Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children.{{citation|last=Vernon |first=Cheril |title='Queen of Romance' still going strong |newspaper=Palestine Herald-Press |url=http://www.palestineherald.com/features/local_story_203002337.html?keyword=topstory |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111072340/http://www.palestineherald.com/features/local_story_203002337.html?keyword=topstory |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 11, 2013 |date=July 22, 2007 |access-date=August 8, 2007 }} Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through".Irish Times May 12, 2007 Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life.{{cite web |last=Weiner |first=Debbie |date=March 10, 2000 |title=Author Nora Roberts |url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-roberts-nora.asp |access-date=August 9, 2007 |publisher=BookReporter}} Although she had always imagined stories from childhood, Roberts did not write in her youth other than essays for school. She does claim to have "told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes."{{cite web|title=Author Nora Roberts October 1998 |publisher=BookReporter|url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-roberts-nora.asp|access-date=August 9, 2007|date=October 1998|last=House|first=Jeanny}} She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline.

During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to Montgomery Blair High School,{{cite web|title=Senior picture from Blair High School 1968 Silverlogue Yearbook|url=http://www.itsallaboutfamily.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=51400&g2_navId=x6c68125d|publisher=Itsallaboutfamily.com|access-date=March 17, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215230105/http://www.itsallaboutfamily.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=51400&g2_navId=x6c68125d|archive-date=February 15, 2012}} where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke.{{cite news |last1=Collins |first1=Lauren |title=Real Romance: How Nora Roberts became America's most popular novelist. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/22/real-romance-2 |access-date=August 29, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker |issue=June 22, 2009}} They married, against her parents' wishes, in 1968, as soon as she graduated,{{cite news|last=Kloberdanz|first=Kristin|title=Don't Write Off Romance: Thought You Could Dismiss It? Think Again: Meet Nora Roberts, the Queen of the Genre, Who Reigns over a Changed Landscape|newspaper=Book Magazine|date=March–April 2002|access-date=August 10, 2007|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=881767#interview|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711182242/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=881767#interview|archive-date=July 11, 2007}} and settled in Boonsboro, Maryland.

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 divorcedBellafante, Ginia, (August 23, 2006) A Romance Novelist's Heroines Prefer Love Over Money, New York Times, retrieved November 26, 2014. in 1983.

Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qcADQAAQBAJ&q=%22Bruce+Wilder%22+%221985%22+%22roberts%22&pg=PT35 |title=The Obsession |publisher=Trivia-On-Books |year=2015}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/books/23roberts.html?mcubz=3 |newspaper=The New York Times |title=A Romance Novelist's Heroines Prefer Love Over Money |first=Ginia |last=Bellafante |date=August 23, 2006 |quote=Not long into her career, Ms. Roberts divorced. Then, in 1985, she married a carpenter, Bruce Wilder. Mr. Wilder runs a bookstore that the couple bought near their home.}} Her husband owns Turn the Page Books bookstore in Boonsboro{{cite web |url=http://www.ttpbooks.com/ourstory.html |title=Turn the Page Bookstore |publisher=Ttpbooks.com |access-date=October 31, 2013 |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102131306/http://www.ttpbooks.com/ourstory.html |url-status=dead }} and works as an adult content photographer and videographer.{{Cite web|url=https://wilderphotography.com/|title=Bruce Wilder Photography|website=wilderphotography.com|access-date=July 6, 2023}} 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.{{cite news|last=La Gorce|first=Tammy|title=Maryland's Civil War Country Seeks a Softer Side|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/travel/30boonsboro.html?scp=1&sq=Nora%20Roberts&st=cse&_r=0|access-date=April 6, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 29, 2010}}

She is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times.{{cite web|title=Suns release 2007 promotional schedule|url=https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-201534|access-date=May 17, 2014|newspaper=Minor League Baseball|date=April 2, 2007}}

She began to write during a blizzard in February 1979. Roberts states that with three feet of snow, a dwindling supply of chocolate, and no morning kindergarten for her two boys, she had little else to do.{{Citation|url=http://adwoff.com/nora-faq-professional.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218163954/http://adwoff.com/nora-faq-professional.htm|archive-date=February 18, 2012|title=Frequently Asked Questions and Answers from Nora Roberts |access-date=August 4, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.noraroberts.com/bio.htm |title=Author Nora Roberts |publisher=Nora Roberts |access-date=August 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714082145/http://www.noraroberts.com/bio.htm |archive-date=July 14, 2007 |url-status=dead }} She fell in love with the writing process, and quickly produced six manuscripts{{cite web|last=Elley|first=Karen Trotter|title=Nora Roberts deals with destiny in Three Fates|publisher=Book Page|url=http://www.bookpage.com/0204bp/nora_roberts.html|year=2002|access-date=August 9, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813174113/http://www.bookpage.com/0204bp/nora_roberts.html|archive-date=August 13, 2007}} which she submitted to Harlequin, the leading publisher of romance novels, but was repeatedly rejected. Roberts says,

I got the standard rejection for the first couple of tries, then my favorite rejection of all time. I received my manuscript back with a nice little note which said that my work showed promise, and the story had been very entertaining and well done. But that they already had their American writer. That would have been Janet Dailey.Regis, pages 183–184

Dailey would go on to be embroiled in a plagiarism scandal in which she eventually confessed to stealing some of Roberts' work.

Roberts once stated: "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."{{citation |last=Nuckols |first=Ben |title=Nora Roberts, 9-to-5 storyteller: Her writing output and sales are huge, her work is routine |date=August 22, 2006 |newspaper=The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) |page=F07}} She concentrates on one novel at a time, writing eight hours a day, every day, even while on vacation. Rather than begin with an outline, Roberts instead envisions a key incident, character, or setting. She then writes a short first draft that has the basic elements of a story. Roberts then goes back to the beginning of the novel. The second draft usually sees the addition of details, the "texture and color" of the work, as well as a more in-depth study of the characters. She then does a final pass to polish the novel before sending it to her agent, Amy Berkower.{{cite web |last=Gold |first=Laurie |author2=Linda Mowery |date=September 22, 1997 |title=Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series |url=http://www.likesbooks.com/roberts.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823003128/http://www.likesbooks.com/roberts.html |archive-date=August 23, 2007 |access-date=August 9, 2007 |publisher=All About Romance}}

She often writes trilogies, finishing the three books in a row so that she can remain with the same characters. In the past, her trilogies were all released in paperback, as Roberts believed the wait for hardcover editions was too long for the reader. All her new publications are released in hardcover first and e-book, with paperback editions following.

Roberts does much of her research over the Internet, as she has an aversion to flying.

In 1980, a new publisher, Silhouette Books, formed to take advantage of the manuscripts from the American writers that Harlequin had rejected.Regis, p 159 Roberts' first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981, using the pseudonym Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson because she assumed that all romance authors had pen names.

Between 1982 and 1984, Roberts wrote 23 novels for Silhouette, published under various Silhouette imprints: Silhouette Sensation, Silhouette Special Edition and Silhouette Desire, as well as Silhouette Intrigue, and MIRA's reissue program. In 1985, Playing the Odds, the first novel in the MacGregor family series, was published and was an immediate bestseller.

In 1987, she began writing single title books for Bantam. Five years later she moved to Putnam to write single title hardcovers and original paperbacks,{{Citation|url=http://www.noraroberts.com/nwriting.htm |title=Nora Roberts on writing |access-date=August 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714082058/http://www.noraroberts.com/nwriting.htm |archive-date=July 14, 2007 |url-status=dead }} reaching the hardcover bestseller lists with her fourth hardcover release, 1996's Montana Sky. Roberts has continued to release single-title novels in paperback. She still occasionally writes shorter category romances. Her attachment to the shorter category books stems from her years as a young mother of two boys without much time to read, as she "[remembers] exactly what it felt like to want to read and not have time to read 200,000 words."

Roberts was featured in Pamela Regis's A Natural History of the Romance Novel. Regis calls Roberts "a master of the romance novel form", because she "has a keen ear for dialogue, constructs deft scenes, maintains a page-turning pace, and provides compelling characterization." Publishers Weekly once talked about her "wry humor and the use of different narrators, two devices that were once rarities" in the romance novel genre.

Roberts had long wanted to write romantic suspense in the vein of Mary Stewart, but, at the urging of her agent, she concentrated on classic contemporary romance while she built a following of readers. After moving to Putnam in 1992, the publishing company quickly realized that they were unable to keep up with Roberts's prolific output. They suggested that she adopt a second pseudonym so they would be able to publish more of her work each year.{{cite web|last=Schendel|first=Jennifer|title=The Appeal of the Romance Series|publisher=All About Romance|url=http://www.likesbooks.com/128.html#robb|date=November 15, 2001|access-date=August 9, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807072307/http://www.likesbooks.com/128.html#robb|archive-date=August 7, 2007}}

Her agent, Amy Berkover, convinced the publishers to allow Roberts to write romantic suspense under the new name. She chose the pseudonym D. J. MacGregor, but right before publication, discovered it was in use by another author. Instead, her first romantic suspense novel was published in 1995 under the pseudonym J. D. Robb. The initials "J. D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.

As J. D. Robb, Roberts has published a series of futuristic science fiction police procedurals. These books, all part of the in Death series, feature detective Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke and are set in a mid-21st century New York City. Despite the emphasis on solving a crime in each of the books, the overall theme of the series is the development of the relationship between Eve and Roarke. When the in Death series began, neither Roberts nor her publisher acknowledged that she was the author. They hoped to allow the series to stand on its own merits and build its own following.{{cite web|title=Interview with Nora Roberts |publisher=Die Buecherecke Romantische |first=Isolde |last=Wehr |date=April 2000 |url=http://www.die-buecherecke.de/roberts2.HTM |access-date=August 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705021841/http://www.die-buecherecke.de/roberts2.HTM |archive-date=July 5, 2007 |url-status=dead }}

After publishing 18 novels in the in Death series, Putnam published the nineteenth, Divided in Death, first in hardcover. The book became Roberts' first bestselling novel of 2004.{{citation|last=Maryles |first=Daisy |title=Nora's Newbies |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=February 9, 2004 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA380278.html?q=Nora+Roberts |access-date=August 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929094549/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA380278.html?q=Nora+Roberts |archive-date=September 29, 2009 }}

As of March 2022, Roberts has published 54 novels plus ten novellas in the in Death series.{{cite web|title=In Death Series by J.D. Robb|website=GoodReads|url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/41029-in-death|access-date=March 2, 2022}}

Roberts wrote a story for a magazine titled Melodies of Love under the pseudonym Jill March. She has also been known as Sarah Hardesty in the UK. When the Born In series was released in Britain it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers.

In 1996, Roberts passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky and, in 2012, doubled that with The Witness. In both 1999 and 2000, four of the five novels that USA Today listed as the best-selling romance novels of the year were written by Roberts. Her first appearance on The New York Times Best Seller list came in 1991,{{cite web|last=Nuckols|first=Ben|title=For Romance Titan Roberts, Writing Novels is a 9-to-5 Job|publisher=WTOP News|date=August 7, 2006|url=http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&pid=0&sid=872864&page=1|access-date=August 9, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010162819/http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&pid=0&sid=872864&page=1|archive-date=October 10, 2007|url-status=dead}} and between 1991 and 2001, she had 68 New York Times Bestsellers, counting hardbacks and paperbacks.Regis, p 184. In 2001, Roberts had 10 best-selling mass-market paperbacks, according to Publishers Weekly, not counting those books written under the J.D. Robb name. In September 2001, for the first time Roberts took the numbers 1 and 2 spots on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, as her romance Time and Again was number one, and her J.D. Robb release Seduction in Death was number two.{{citation|last=Maryles |first=Daisy |title=Roberts Scores with Mass Turnover |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=September 10, 2001 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA155409.html?q=Nora+Roberts |access-date=August 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928070628/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA155409.html?q=Nora+Roberts |archive-date=September 28, 2009 }}

Since 1999, every one of Roberts's novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and 124 of her novels have ranked on the Times bestseller list, including 29 that debuted in the number-one spot. As of January 24, 2013, Roberts's novels had spent a combined 948 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 148 weeks in the number-one spot. As of January 9, 2009, 400 million copies of her books are in print, including 12 million copies sold in 2005 alone. Her novels have been published in 35 countries.{{cite web|title=Did You Know?|publisher=Nora Roberts Official Website|date=March 21, 2013|url=http://www.noraroberts.com/aboutnora/funfacts.php|access-date=March 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326045301/http://www.noraroberts.com/aboutnora/funfacts.php|archive-date=March 26, 2013}}

A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), Roberts was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. In 1997 she was awarded the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, which in 2008 was renamed the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite web|title=RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award|publisher=Romance Writers of America|year=2013|access-date=March 21, 2013|url=http://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=543|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920213109/http://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=543|archive-date=September 20, 2014|url-status=dead}} As of 2012, she has won an unprecedented 21 of the RWA's RITA Awards, the highest honor given in the romance genre.{{cite web|title=RITA Awards: Past Winners|publisher=Romance Writers of America|year=2013|access-date=March 21, 2013|url=http://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714074216/https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|archive-date=July 14, 2015|url-status=dead}}

Two of Roberts' novels, Sanctuary and Magic Moments, had previously been made into TV movies. In 2007, Lifetime Television adapted four Nora Roberts novels into TV movies: Angels Fall starring Heather Locklear, Montana Sky starring Ashley Williams, Blue Smoke starring Alicia Witt, and Carolina Moon starring Claire Forlani. This was the first time that Lifetime had adapted multiple works by the same author.{{citation|last=Andriani |first=Lynn |title=Romance Blossoms Between Nora Roberts and Lifetime |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=January 29, 2007 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6410901.html?q=Nora+Roberts |access-date=August 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929094552/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6410901.html?q=Nora+Roberts |archive-date=September 29, 2009 }} Four more films were released on four consecutive Saturdays in March and April 2009. The 2009 collection included Northern Lights starring LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, Midnight Bayou starring Jerry O'Connell, High Noon starring Emilie de Ravin, and Tribute starring Brittany Murphy.

TIME named Roberts one of their 100 Most Influential People in 2007, saying she "has inspected, dissected, deconstructed, explored, explained and extolled the passions of the human heart."{{citation|last=Holt |first=Karen |title=Roberts, Mitchell Make Time's List |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=May 14, 2007 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6442060.html?q=Nora+Roberts |access-date=August 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928070743/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6442060.html?q=Nora+Roberts |archive-date=September 28, 2009 }} Roberts was one of only two authors on the list, the other being David Mitchell.

In 1997, another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey, admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing Roberts' work. The practice came to light after a reader read Roberts' Sweet Revenge and Dailey's Notorious back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind-boggling", Roberts sued Dailey. Dailey acknowledged the plagiarism and attributed it to a psychological disorder. She admitted that both Aspen Gold and Notorious lifted heavily from Roberts' work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Dailey's admission.{{citation|last=Wilson|first=Jeff|title=Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=July 30, 1997}}{{citation|last=Standora|first=Leo|title=Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued|date=August 27, 1997|newspaper=New York Daily News|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/08/27/1997-08-27_romance_writer_janet_dailey_.html|access-date=November 18, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801054127/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/08/27/1997-08-27_romance_writer_janet_dailey_.html|archive-date=August 1, 2009}} In April 1998, Dailey settled the case. Roberts donated the settlement to various literary causes including the Literacy Volunteers of America (now ProLiteracy).{{citation|last=Quinn |first=Judy |date=February 23, 1998 |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA165397.html?pubdate=2%2F23%2F1998&display=archive |title=Nora Roberts: A Celebration of Emotions |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |access-date=December 25, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208100926/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA165397.html?pubdate=2%2F23%2F1998&display=archive |archive-date=February 8, 2008 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.likesbooks.com/daileyupdate.html#roberts |title=All About Romance: A 2001 Update in the Janet Dailey/Nora Roberts Plagiarism Case |publisher=Likesbooks.com |access-date=October 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106173705/http://www.likesbooks.com/daileyupdate.html#roberts |archive-date=November 6, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.likesbooks.com/daileyupdate.html |title=All About Romance: A 2001 Update in the Janet Dailey/Nora Roberts Plagiarism Case |publisher=Likesbooks.com |access-date=October 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106173705/http://www.likesbooks.com/daileyupdate.html |archive-date=November 6, 2013 }}{{citation|title=Plagiarism paid for|newspaper=The Victoria Advocate|date=April 17, 1998|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bnIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=3241,3430145&dq=janet+dailey+plagiarism+settlement|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513010834/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bnIKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3EoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3241,3430145&dq=janet+dailey+plagiarism+settlement|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 13, 2016|access-date=November 18, 2008}}

Roberts joined the chorus strongly criticizing fellow romance writer Cassie Edwards, who had lifted many passages from much older sources (many in the public domain) without giving credit, forcing Edwards out of the business.{{cite web|url=http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/a_centralized_document_for_the_cassie_edwards_situation/|title=A centralized document for the Cassie Edwards situation|last=Tan|first=Candy|author2=Wendell, Sarah |date=January 11, 2008|publisher=Smart Bitches|access-date=July 20, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=812|title=The Case of the Purloined Prose|last=Lundin|first=Leigh|date=May 11, 2008|work=Scandal Sheets|publisher=Criminal Brief|access-date=July 20, 2009}}

In 2019, Roberts, along with other authors, was a victim of plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya.{{cite magazine|author= Hillel Italie |url=http://time.com/5577788/nora-roberts-brazil-plagiarism-lawsuit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425054056/http://time.com/5577788/nora-roberts-brazil-plagiarism-lawsuit/ |title=Nora Roberts Is Suing a Brazilian Writer for Plagiarism on a 'Rare and Scandalous' Level |archive-date=2019-04-25|magazine=Time}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/books/nora-roberts-plagiarism.html|title=Nora Roberts Sues Brazilian Writer Who She Says Plagiarized Her Work|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 24, 2019|last1=León|first1=Concepción de}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/25/nora-roberts-files-multi-plagiarism-lawsuit-alleging-writer-copied-more-than-40-authors|title = Nora Roberts files 'multi-plagiarism' lawsuit alleging writer copied more than 40 authors|website = TheGuardian.com|date = April 25, 2019}}

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.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/01/11/the-30-most-generous-celebrities/2/ |title=The 30 Most Generous Celebrities |magazine=Forbes |access-date=October 31, 2013}}{{cite magazine|last=Gray |first=Mark |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20448972,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212203532/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20448972,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2010 |title=Oprah Winfrey, Nora Roberts, Meryl Streep Lead Celebrity Charity List |magazine=People |date=January 14, 2013 |access-date=October 31, 2013}}{{cite web |title=Nora Roberts Foundation |url=http://norarobertsfoundation.org/ |website=norarobertsfoundation.org |access-date=April 25, 2019}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.mcdaniel.edu/undergraduate/the-mcdaniel-plan/departments/english/the-nora-roberts-center-for-american-romance/ |title=The Nora Roberts Center for American Romance | McDaniel College |publisher=Mcdaniel.edu |access-date=October 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528141125/http://www.mcdaniel.edu/undergraduate/the-mcdaniel-plan/departments/english/the-nora-roberts-center-for-american-romance |archive-date=May 28, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

{{Main|Nora Roberts bibliography}}

• Magic Moments (1989)
• Sanctuary (2001)
• Angels Fall (2007)
• Montana Sky (2007)
• Blue Smoke (2007)
• Carolina Moon (2007)
• Northern Lights (2009)
• Midnight Bayou (2009)
• High Noon (2009)
• Tribute (2009)
• Carnal Innocence (2011)
• Brazen (2022)

Several of Roberts' books have been adapted into made-for-TV movies and aired on Lifetime.

The 2007 Collection featured:

• Angels Fall
• Montana Sky
• Blue Smoke
• Carolina Moon

The 2009 Collection featured:[http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/nora-roberts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312041530/http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/nora-roberts|date=March 12, 2009}}

• Northern Lights
• Midnight Bayou
• High Noon
• Tribute

Peter Guber's Mandalay TV and Stephanie Germain Prods. produced the eight adaptations.

Golden Medallion awards were awarded by the Romance Writers of America.{{Citation|title=Romance Writers of America: National Contests and Awards |url=http://www.rwanational.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927043913/http://www.rwanational.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=November 15, 2007 }}

• The Heart's Victory: 1983 Golden Medallion for Best Contemporary Sensual Romance
• Untamed: 1984 Golden Medallion for Best Traditional Romance
• This Magic Moment: 1984 Golden Medallion for Best Contemporary 65–80,000 words, shared with Deirdre Mardn's Destiny's Sweet Errand
• Opposites Attract: 1985 Golden Medallion for Best Short Contemporary Romance
• A Matter of Choice: 1985 Golden Medallion for Best Long Contemporary Series Romance
• One Summer: 1987 Golden Medallion for Best Long Contemporary Series Romance
• Brazen Virtue: 1989 Golden Medallion for Best Suspense

RITA Awards are awarded by the Romance Writers of America.

• Night Shift: 1992 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Divine Evil: 1993 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Nightshade: 1994 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Private Scandals: 1994 RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title
• Hidden Riches: 1995 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Born in Ice: 1996 RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title
• Born in Ice: 1996 RITA Award for Best Romance of 1995
• Carolina Moon: 2001 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Three Fates: 2003 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Remember When – Part 1: 2004 RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense
• Birthright: 2004 RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title
• Tribute: 2009 RITA Award Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements{{Citation|title=RITA Awards: Past Winners|url=http://www.rwa.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners|access-date=November 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918204447/http://www.rwa.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners|archive-date=September 18, 2012}}

Quill Awards are awarded by the Quills Foundation.{{Citation | title = The Quill Awards | url = http://www.thequills.org/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060615005423/http://www.thequills.org/ | url-status = usurped | archive-date = June 15, 2006 | access-date = November 23, 2007}}

• Angels Fall: 2006 Book of the year
• Angels Fall: 2006 Romance
• Blue Smoke: 2007 Romance

• Survivor in Death: 2006 RITA Awards Romantic Suspense winner{{Citation | title = J. D. Robb | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/j-d-robb/ |publisher=Fantastic Fiction | access-date = September 26, 2007}}
• New York to Dallas: 2012 RITA Awards Best Romantic Suspense winner

{{reflist}}

{{refbegin}}

• Little, Denise and Laura Hayden, The Official Nora Roberts Companion, Berkley Books, 2003, {{ISBN|0-425-18344-0}}.
• Lennard, John, "Of Pseudonyms and Sentiment: Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb, and the Imperative Mood", in Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007), pp. 56–86. {{ISBN|978-1-84760-038-7}}
• {{citation|last=Regis|first=Pamela|title=A Natural History of the Romance Novel|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2003|location=Philadelphia |isbn=0-8122-3303-4|pages=183–184}}

{{refend}}

{{Commons category}}

• {{Official website}}
• [http://www.jdrobb.com/ Official J.D. Robb website]
• [http://fallintothestory.com/ Official blog]

{{Nora Roberts}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Nora}}

Category:1950 births

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:21st-century American women writers

Category:American expatriates in Ireland

Category:American paranormal romance writers

Category:American people of Irish descent

Category:American romantic fiction writers

Category:American science fiction writers

Category:American women novelists

Category:Living people

Category:Novelists from Maryland

Category:Writers from Silver Spring, Maryland

Category:People from Washington County, Maryland

Category:Pseudonymous women writers

Category:RITA Award winners

Category:American women mystery writers

Category:American women romantic fiction writers

Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers

Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers

Category:21st-century pseudonymous writers