Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins (b. 1951) is a best-selling author of contemporary and historical romances featuring African-American and multicultural characters. Her use of 19th-century African-American history is unusual in the romance genre.

Jenkins has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks Best Seller Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance. In 1999, she was voted one of the Favorite 50 African-American Authors of the 20th Century by AALBC.com, the nation's largest online African-American book club. She is also a 2013 NAACP Image Award nominee. Her fan club is known for its Beverly Jenkins Pajama Party Weekend.

Jenkins has written over a dozen romances and two young adult historical novels for Avon. She has also written several romantic suspense novels for Harper Torch. She lives in Michigan, where she is active as a community volunteer and a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.

Books

• "Something Old, Something New" - 2011 ([[William Morrow))]
• "Second Helping" - 2010 (William Morrow)
• "Bring on the Blessings" - 2009 (William Morrow)
• Jewel - 2008 (Avon)
• Wild Sweet Love - 2007 (Avon)
• Sexy/Dangerous - 2006 (Harper Torch)
• Winds of the Storm - 2006 (Avon)
• Black Lace - 2005 (Harper Torch)
• Something Like Love - 2005 (Avon)
• The Edge of Dawn - 2004 (Harper Torch)
• The Edge of Midnight - 2004 (Harper Torch)
• Josephine and the Soldier - 2003 (Avon) (YA)
• A Chance at Love - 2002 (Avon)
• Belle and the Beau - 2002 (Avon) (YA)
• Before the Dawn - 2001 (Avon)
• Always and Forever - 2000 (Avon)
• The Taming of Jessi Rose - 1999 (Avon)
• Through the Storm - 1998 (Avon)
• Topaz - 1997 (Avon), reissued in 2007
• Indigo - 1996 (Avon)
• Vivid - 1995 (Avon)
• Night Song - 1994 (Avon)

Novellas

• "Homecoming" in Gettin' Merry - 2002 (St. Martin's Press)

Series/Related Titles

The Blessings

1. "Bring on the Blessings" - 2009 (William Morrow)
2. "A Second Helping" - 2010 (William Morrow)
3. "Something Old, Something New) - 2011 (William Morrow)

Topaz/Mail-Order Brides

1. Topaz - 1997 (Avon)
2. Always and Forever - 2000 (Avon)
3. A Chance at Love - 2002 (Avon)

Black Seminoles

1. Something Like Love - 2005 (Avon)
2. Wild Sweet Love - 2007 (Avon)

Young-adult historical fiction

• Belle and the Beau - 2002 (Avon)
• Josephine and the Soldier - 2003 (Avon)

Romantic suspense

• The Edge of Midnight - 2004 (Harper Torch)
• The Edge of Dawn - 2004 (Harper Torch)
• Black Lace - 2005 (Harper Torch)
• Sexy/Dangerous - 2006 (Harper Torch)

Awards/Honors

• Detroit Free Press Book of the Year
• Six Borders/Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards
• Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Historical Storyteller), 2007
• YWCA Western Wayne County Woman of Achievement Award, 2001
• Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Multicultural), 2000
• Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer's Guild of America
• Voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by African American Literature Book Club, 1999

On the Web

• Beverly Jenkins
• Beverly Jenkins at Harper Collins
• NAACP Image Award Nomination

Interviews

• Interviewed for myLifetime.com by Michelle Buonfiglio (video)
• Interviewed by Ingrid, Through My Eyes, 2008
• Interviewed on Petticoats and Pistols, 2008