Tracy Adams

Biography

While Tracy Adams is a pen name frequently associated in uncredited internet sources as having been used by Arlene Hale, it is unlikely that this is true. Two books with the author Tracy Adams (Spotlight on Nurse Thorne and Hotel Nurse), in their listings in the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries, are credited to the author Sofi O'Bryan, and the book Roman Candles is published under both names.

A biography in the book Spotlight on Nurse Thorne published by Ace Books (D-549) in 1962, reads:

"Tracy Adams has written extensively for women's magazines, has been on the staff of several such periodicals, and has worked as a reporter for a midwestern daily. Married to a commercial artist, she is the mother of two children and now makes her home on Long Island. She says of this novel: 'Before I became a reporter, I wanted to be a nurse, and did some hospital work. Nurse Thorne came into being when the lovely daughter of a friend of mine gave up a stage career to enter nursing. If I weren't a writer, I'd be a nurse today.' "

If this biography is not a complete fiction of itself, it does not entirely gibe with Arlene Hale's own life story, as Hale lived in Iowa and is not known to have married. (The fact that she was a reporter as well means little, as many romance authors of the era were also journalists.)

Books

• Spotlight on Nurse Thorne - Ace, 1962
• Washington Nurse - Avon, 1963
• Hotel Nurse - Ace, 1964
• Roman Candles - Pocket Books, 1981
• Moth And The Flame, The - June 1981 (Silhouette Romance #86)