Dee Henderson Explained

Dee Henderson
Occupation:Author
Nationality:American
Education:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS)
Genre:Christian fiction
Awards:RITA Award (2000)

Dee Henderson is an American author of Christian fiction novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on The New York Times Best Seller list.[1]

Personal life

Dee Henderson is a lifelong inhabitant of Illinois, currently residing in Springfield. She is the daughter of a pastor and started writing as a child.[2] Henderson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1988 with a B.S. in computer science[3] and worked for a decade as an engineer before starting to publish professionally.[4] She started writing fiction for publication in 1996.[5] Henderson is single and enjoys painting, reading, walking around her subdivision, and spending time with her dogs.[6] She still attends church at her childhood church.[7] Publishers Weekly described Henderson one of the "bestselling and perennial favorites" published by Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group.[8]

Awards

Henderson has won or been nominated for various writing awards including: Romance Writers of America's RITA Award, the Christy Award, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Readers' Choice Award,[9] and the Golden Quill.

Published works

O’Malley Series

Uncommon Heroes

Stand alones

Evie Blackwell Cold Case

External links

Notes and References

  1. "Woman authors New York Times Best Seller" Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois), November 20, 2012, p. 13
  2. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-11-11 . 2015-02-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150207040603/http://cs.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/files/newsletters/summer01.pdf . dead .
  4. Web site: Hilliard . Juli Cragg . Dee Henderson: What to Say About God . 2024-03-26 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.
  5. Web site: Dee Henderson: Back with Full Disclosure. 26 September 2012.
  6. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  7. Interview with Susan Sleeman, accessed 9/30/2018 https://www.susansleeman.com/meet-romantic-suspense-author-dee-henderson/
  8. Web site: For Christian Fiction Editors, It’s Complicated . 2024-03-26 . PublishersWeekly.com . en.
  9. "FL Public Library Adds new romance author," Daily Citizen (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) 15 Mar 2001, p. 14