Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts is known as "The Queen of Romance" with good reason: she is both prolific and generous with time and energy. Roberts has been lauded with many awards; her first was for The Heart's Victory, which won the 1983 Golden Medallion in the Contemporary Sensual Category. Nora Roberts was the first author inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. In 2007, her novel Angels Fall received the Quill Book of the Year Award, an honor chosen by fans and readers.
Roberts famously started her writing career when a 1979 blizzard trapped her and her young sons indoors for an extended period of time. Her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981. She continued writing exclusively for the Harlequin/Silhouette lines until 1987, when she branched out into Single Title.
Though Nora Roberts no longer writes for the Harlequin/Silhouette family, her backlist titles remain in print and top sellers. Many of her books have been collected in a special group called Nora Roberts Language Of Love. She wrote one novel for the Harlequin Intrigue imprint. Roberts published 13 novels for the Silhouette Romance imprint.
Roberts also publishes futuristic suspense under the name J.D. Robb.
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Books
Chronological
For a chronological list of books see Nora Roberts Books Chronologically.
Alphabetical
For an alphabetical list of books see Nora Roberts Books Alphabetically.
Novellas/Short Stories
- "Eternity In Death" - Dead Of Night, 2007 (Putnam)
- "Ever After" in Once Upon A Star - 1999 (with Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Marianne Willman)
Awards
- 2004 RITA Award Winner - Contemporary Single Title, Birthright
- 2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award Winner - Best Contemporary Single Title Romance, Birthright
- 2001 All About Romance Reader Award Winner - Strongest Heroine, Dance Upon The Air
- 2001 RITA Award Winner - Romantic Suspense, Carolina Moon
- 1996 RITA Award Winner - Contemporary Single Title, Born In Ice
- 1993 RITA Award Winner - Romantic Suspense, Divine Evil
- 1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Suspense Novel, Divine Evil
- 1988 [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|Golden Medallion] Winner - Suspense, Brazen Virtue
Recognitions
- 2017 Indy Next Starred Review, Come Sundown
- 2014 Booklist Starred Review, The Collector
- 2013 Kirkus Reviews Starred Review, Dark Witch'
- 2011 RITA Award Finalist - Contemporary Single Title, Happy Ever After'
- 2009 Booklist Starred Review, Bed Of Roses
- 2007 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#57), Born In Fire
- 2007 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#93), Born In Ice
- 2007 Library Journal Starred Review, Blood Brothers
- 2006 Publishers Weekly Starred Review, Dance Of The Gods
- 2006 RITA Award Finalist - Novel With Strong Romantic Elements, Blue Smoke
- 2005 Library Journal Starred Review, Black Rose
- 2005 Publishers Weekly Starred Review, Black Rose
- 2004 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#26), Born In Fire
- 2004 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#91), Born In Ice
- 2004 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#80), Chesapeake Blue
- 2003 RITA Award Finalist - Contemporary Single Title, Chesapeake Blue
- 2002 RITA Award Finalist - Futuristic/Fantasy/Paranormal, Dance Upon The Air
- 2000 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#72), Born In Fire
- 2000 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#42), Born In Ice
- 1998 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#20), Born In Fire
- 1998 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#35), Born In ice
- 1998 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#22), Born In Shame
- 1998 All About Romance Reader Award - Top 100 Romances (#56), Daring To Dream
- 1998 RITA Award Finalist - Contemporary Single Title, Finding The Dream
- 1997 RITA Award Finalist - Contemporary Single Title, Daring To Dream
- 1997 RITA Award Finalist - Long Contemporary Series, The Fall Of Shane MacKade
Awards/Honors
- 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Contemporary Romantic Suspense
- 1988-1989 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Versatility
- 1989-1990 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Contemporary Romance
- 1990-1991 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Series Romantic Fantasy
- 1994 RRA Awards Winner - Best Contemporary Author
- 1995 RRA Awards Winner - Best Classic All-Around Romance Author
- 1995 RRA Awards Winner - Best All-Around Romance Author
- 1995 RRA Awards Winner - Best Contemporary Author
- 1996 RRA Awards Winner - Best All-Time Classic Romance Author
- 1996 RRA Awards Winner - Best All-Time Romance Author
- 1996 RRA Awards Winner - Best Contemporary Author
- 1996 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Futuristic Romance
- 1996 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Series Storyteller Of The Year
- 1997 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Contemporary Novel
- 2001 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Series Romance
- 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Novel With Strong Romantic Elements category with High Noon
- 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Best Romantic Novella category with "Eternity In Death".
Articles/Interviews
- At first suspicious, but now appreciative of NR - A professor of English examines the work of Nora Roberts and popular fiction
- Queen of Romance still going strong - Palestine Herald, Palenstine, Texas