Arlene Hale
Arlene Hale (1924-1982)
According to bibliographical information printed in several of her novels, Arlene Hale was born and raised on a small farm in Iowa and attended a one-room schoolhouse. Her family later moved to New London, Iowa, where she graduated from high school and then began her writing career by writing poetry and short stories. Eventually, Ms. Hale wrote more than 100 novels, mostly romance and nurse romance books and an occasional gothic romance. In addition to her own name she would write under at least two pseudonyms, Lynn Williams and Gail Everett.
Arlene Hale died in 1982 at the relatively young age of 57.
(Sources: "The Winds of Summer" by Arlene Hale, Little Brown and Co., 1976, dust cover, and "Lovers'Reunion" by Arlene Hale, Signet Books, 1977, page 185.)
Selected Bibliography:
"School Nurse" (Ace, 1960)
"Leave It to Nurse Kathy" (Ace, 1963)
"Wait for Love" (1963) Later reissued by Dell, 1975
"A Nurse's Strange Romance" (Ace, 1964)
"Nurse Marcie's Island" (Ace, 1964)
"Chicago Nurse" (Ace, 1965) (Later retitled "A Nurse's New Love")
"Nurse on Leave" (Ace, 1965)
"Mountain Nurse" (Ace, 1966)
"Emergency for Nurse Selena" (Ace, 1966)
"Lake Resort Nurse" (Ace, 1966)
"Camp Nurse" (Ace, 1966)
"Journey for a Nurse" (Ace, 1966)
"University Nurse" (Ace, 1967)
"Nurse on the Beach" (Ace, 1967)
"Dr. Barry's Nurse" (1968)
"Emergency Call" (Ace, 1968)
"When Summer Ends" (as Gail Everett) (Dell, 1968)
"Stranger on the Beach" (Dell, 1968)
"My Favorite Nurse" (Ace, 1968)
"Crossroads for Nurse Cathy" (Ace, 1969)
"Nurse Rogers' Discovery" (1969) (Later retitled "When Dreams Come True" (Dell, 1977)
"Private Hospital" (Dell, 1969)
"The New Nurses" (Dell, 1970)
"Holiday to Fear" (Dell, 1970)
"Dark Flames" (Dell, 1971)
"Walk Softly, Doctor" (Ace, 1971)
"Executive Nurse" (Dell, 1971)
"The Reunion" (Dell, 1972)
"The Nurse from Mulberry Square" (Ace, 1972)
"Medley of Mystery" (as Lynn Williams, copyright by Arlene Hale) (Dell, 1974)
"Midnight Nightmare" (Dell, 1975)
"Dangerous Yesterdays" (Dell, 1975)
"Perilous Weekend" (Dell, 1975)
"The Winds of Summer" (Little Brown and Co., 1976)
"The Stormy Sea of Love" (Signet, 1976)
"Nurse Lora's Love" (Ace, 1976)
"Nurse Julia's Tangled Loves" (Ace, 1976)
"Frightened Nurse" (1976)
"Lovers' Reunion" (Signet, 1977)
"Nurse in Residence" (Dell, 1977) (reissue)
"Love's Sweet Surrender" (Dell, 1980)
"The Impossible Love" (Scholastic, 1982)
