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. 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.
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Books
- 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
Young-adult historical novels
- Belle and the Beau - 2002 (Avon)
- Josephine and the Soldier - 2003 (Avon)
Romantic suspense novels
- 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
- Five 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
