Barbara Dawson Smith

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A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara also writes romance as Olivia Drake.

Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.

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See Also

Books

Anthologies

Series/Related Titles

Defiant Fletcher

  1. Defiant Embrace
  2. Defiant Surrender

Fire Coleridge

  1. Fire On The Wind
  2. Fire At Midnight

The Rosebuds

  1. Romancing The Rogue
  2. Tempt Me Twice
  3. With All My Heart
  4. One Wild Night
  5. The Wedding Night

Related Books

  1. Her Secret Affair
  2. Beauty And The Brute

Awards

Recognitions

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