Patricia Veryan
Patricia Veryan is the pen name of Patricia Valeria Veryan Berg, neé Bannister (b. 1923). Growing up in London, she moved to the United States after WWII and later married a Californian she had met while working for the occupation forces in Frankfurt, Germany. She has written stories since she was able to read and write. While raising her two children she tried without success selling scripts for television.
In 1977 a friend urged her to start writing books and in 1978 her first novel, The Lord And The Gypsy, was published. Although set in the Regency, it is not a traditional Regency Romance, but a historical with a diligently researched background. Another hallmark of the author is to group her novels around four "core" series by using the same personnel - often enough thus linking the "series". No book is without links and her fans have dedicated a lot of web pages to the appearance of characters in which function in which novel.
According to her official Fan Club she retired from writing due to failing eyesight. Her last novel, The Riddle Of The Deplorable Dandy, was released in 2002.
See also
On the Web
- Official Fan Club
- Unofficial Website - information about her series and characters
Bibliography
Books
- Ask Me No Questions - April 1993 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Cherished Enemy- August 1988 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Debt Of Honour - 1980 (Souvenir) Hardcover = The Lord And The Gypsy
- Dedicated Villain, The - April 1989 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Feather Castles - August 1982 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Give All To Love - July 1987 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Had We Never Loved - September 1982 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Journey To Enchantment - May 1986 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Lanterns - September 1996 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Logic Of The Heart - May 1990 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Lord And The Gypsy, The - October 1978 (Walker) Hardcover = Debt Of Honour
- Love Alters Not - January 1988 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Love's Duet - May 1979 (Walker) Hardcover = A Perfect Match
- Mandarin Of Mayfair, The - November 1995 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Married Past Redemption - 1983 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Mistress Of Willowvale - April 1980 (Walker) Hardcover
- Nanette - January 1981 (Walker) Hardcover
- Never Doubt I Love - March 1995(St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Noblest Frailty, The - November 1983 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Perfect Match, A - May 1981 (Souvenir) Hardcover = Love's Duet
- Practice To Deceive - November 1985 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Riddle Of Alabaster Royal, The - October 1997 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Riddle Of The Deplorable Dandy, The - November 2002 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Riddle Of The Lost Lover, The - October 1998 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Riddle Of The Reluctant Rake, The - October 1999 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Riddle Of The Shipwrecked Spinster, The - March 2001 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Sanguinet's Crown - August 1985 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Shadow's Bliss, A - April 1994 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Some Brief Folly - August 1981 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Time's Fool - September 1991 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Tyrant, The - June 1987 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
- Wagered Widow, The - September 1984 (St. Martin's Press) Hardcover
Novellas
- Sweet Charlatan in "Autumn Lovers" - October 1993 (Fawcett)
Honors/Awards
- 2001 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Regency Romance
