Sandra Brown Explained

Sandra Lynn Cox Brown
Pseudonym:Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, Erin St. Claire, Sandra Brown
Birth Date:12 March 1948
Birth Place:Waco, Texas, U.S.
Alma Mater:Texas Christian University
Children:Ryan Brown, Rachel Brown
Occupation:Novelist
Period:1981 - present
Genre:Romance, suspense, thriller

Sandra Lynn Brown, née Cox (born March 12, 1948) is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire.

Early life and education

Sandra Brown was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth. She majored in English at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, but left college in 1968 to marry.

Career

After her marriage, Brown worked for KLTV in Tyler as a weathercaster, then returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area where she became a reporter for WFAA-TV's version of PM Magazine.

Brown started her writing career in 1981 after her husband dared her to.[1] Since then, she has published nearly 70 novels and had more than 50 New York Times bestsellers.[2] In 2008, she was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters from her alma mater, TCU.

Her novel French Silk was made into a movie, released in 1994, for television. Susan Lucci, Shari Belafonte, and Lee Horsley starred.[3] In 2016, her novel White Hot was turned into a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original movie titled, Sandra Brown's White Hot.[4]

In 2007, she contributed to Court TV's series Murder By The Book, about the murder of Betty Gore in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980.

On September 30, 2023 Brown announced on social media the finalizing of her divorce from her husband of fifty-five years, Michael Brown.

Bibliography

As Rachel Ryan

Originally Dell Candlelight Ecstasy Romances – Single Novels

As Laura Jordan

Single novels

As Erin St. Claire

Originally published as Harlequin/Silhouette Category Romances – Single Novels
Astray & Devil Series
  1. 1985 Led Astray
  2. 1987 The Devil's Own

As Sandra Brown

Bantam Doubleday Dell's Loveswept Category Romance Books
Bed & Breakfast Series
  1. 1983 Breakfast in Bed (Originally Loveswept # 22)
  2. 1984 Send No Flowers (Originally Loveswept # 51)
Coleman Family Saga Series(Historical Romance)
  1. 1985 Sunset Embrace
  2. 1985 Another Dawn
Mason Sisters Series
  1. 1987 Fanta C (Originally Loveswept # 217)
  2. 1988 Adam's Fall (Originally Loveswept # 252)
Texas! Tyler Family Saga Series
  1. 1990 Texas! Lucky
  2. 1991 Texas! Chase
  3. 1991 Texas! Sage
Single Title Romance Suspense/Thrillers
Omnibus

Awards

Notes

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/09/04/DI2005090400843.html National Book Festival
  2. Web site: Sandra Brown Signs With Grand Central . Publishers Weekly . December 6, 2010 . 2012-10-29.
  3. https://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1800202577 See Yahoo movies
  4. Web site: Sandra Brown's White Hot. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. en. 2019-11-21.

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