Daphne Clair

Biography

Daphne Clair (Daphne Clair De Jong) began her publishing career in the late 1970s, and writes romantic and literary fiction. She brings a feminist bent to her work and contributed an essay to the anthology Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, edited by Jayne Ann Krentz, where she focused on the historical nature of the romance novel as a way of expressing issues related to women on a social level.

Daphne Clair is the author of over sixty novels. She has written 23 books for the Harlequin Presents imprint. She also publishes under the name Laurey Bright.

Books

• A Ruling Passion - Presents, #679 April 1984
• A Wilder Shore - Presents, #385 October 1980
• And Then Came Morning - Presents, #1586 September 1993
• Dark Dream - Presents, #881 May 1986
• Dark Mirror - Presents, #1688 October 1994
• Dark Remembrance - Presents, #458 October 1981
• Darling Deceiver - Presents, #355 May 1980
• Edge Of Deception - Presents, #1749 July 1995
• Flame On The Horizon - Presents, #1648 May 1994
• Grounds For Marriage - Presents, #1866 February 1997
• His Trophy Mistress - Presents, #2249 May 2002
• Infamous Bargain - Presents, #1730 March 1995
• Lovers' Lies - Presents, #1970 July 1998
• Marriage Under Fire - Presents, #687 May 1984
• No Escape - Presents, #1056 March 1988
• No Winner - Presents, #1096 August 1988
• Promise To Pay - Presents, #481 February 1982
• Something Less Than Love - Presents, #367 July 1980
• Take Hold Of Tomorrow - Presents, #711 August 1984
• The Loving Trap - Presents, #506 June 1982
• The Marriage Debt - Presents, #2347 September 2003
• The Riccioni Pregnancy - Presents, #2305 February 2003
• The Wayward Bride - Presents, #1271 June 1990

Non-Fiction

• Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, edited by Jayne Ann Krentz - Contributed an essay
• Writing The Romantic Novel - with co-author Robyn Donald

Honors

• Katherine Mansfield Memorial Short Story Award in 1981 (non-romance fiction)

On the Web

• Daphne Clair/Laurey Bright
• Daphne De Jong - Biography at New Zealand Book Council