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List of romantic novelists
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Notable novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels include:[note 1]
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- Laura Abbot[1]
- Hailey Abbott
- Shana Abé[2]
- Maria Dolores Acevedo[3]
- Cherry Adair[4]
- Jennie Adams
- Lara Adrian
- Cecelia Ahern
- Michele Albert
- Rochelle Alers[5]
- Kate Alexander
- Trisha Alexander
- Victoria Alexander[6]
- Jo Ann Algermissen
- Barbara Allen
- Charlotte Vale Allen
- Harper Allen[7]
- Joan M. Allen
- Heather Allison
- Elizabeth Amber
- Jessica Andersen[6]
- Susan Andersen[8]
- Caroline Anderson
- Catherine Anderson[9]
- Barbara Andrews
- Lucilla Andrews
- Laura Anthony (pen name of Lori Wilde)
- Jane Arbor
- Catherine Archer
- Jennifer Archer
- Catherine Archibald
- Lindsay Armstrong
- Tilly Armstrong
- Judith Arnold[4]
- Jane Ashford
- Dawn Atkins[4]
- Kathryn Atwood
- Jane Austen
- Anne Avery
- Jessica Ayre
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- Jacqueline Baird
- Anne Baker
- Faith Baldwin
- Kathleen Baldwin
- Donna Ball
- Mary Balogh[10]
- Leanne Banks[11]
- Maya Banks
- Michele Bardsley
- Jill Barnett[12]
- Jean Barrett
- Susan Barrie
- Allie Bates
- Jane Beaufort
- Sally Beauman[13]
- Alex Beecroft
- Marguerite Bell
- Elísabet Benavent
- Jayne Bentley
- Laurien Berenson
- Ariel Berk
- Elizabeth Bevarly[12]
- Jo Beverley[14]
- Helen Bianchin[7]
- Janet Bieber
- Maeve Binchy[15]
- Charlotte Bingham
- Jessica Bird[14] (also known as J. R. Ward)
- Claudia Bishop
- Jaid Black
- Jenna Black
- Terri Blackstock
- Ally Blake
- Andrea Blake
- Jennifer Blake[16]
- Emma Blair
- Laurien Blair
- Diana Blayne
- Annalee Blysse
- Pat Booth
- Elaine Bossik
- Donna Boyd
- Joanna Bourne
- Carla Bracale
- Barbara Taylor Bradford[2]
- Celeste Bradley
- Rita Bradshaw
- Taylor Brady
- Joan Bramsch
- Kylie Brant[1]
- Kate Bridges[1]
- Laurey Bright
- P.A. Brisco / Patty Brisco
- Leigh Bristol
- Annette Broadrick[17]
- Anne Brock
- Suzanne Brockmann[14]
- Connie Brockway[14]
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Helen Brooks[7]
- Sandra Brown[16]
- Diana Browning
- Dixie Browning
- Niobia Bryant
- Elizabeth Buchan
- M. L. Buchman
- Nancy Buckingham
- Mary Burchell
- Eleanor Burford
- Pamela Burford
- Rose Burghley
- Nicole Burnham
- Beatrice Burton
- Rebecca Burton
- Shirlee Busbee
- Rob Byrnes
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- Meg Cabot
- Hall Caine
- Linda Cajio
- Candace Camp
- Bethany Campbell[14]
- Teresa Cameselle
- Marsha Canham[18]
- Ann Carberry
- Ruth Cardello
- Donna Carlisle
- Liz Carlyle[14]
- Teresa Carpenter
- Philippa Carr
- Robyn Carr
- Sherry Carr (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sara Chance, and Sydney Ann Clary)[19]
- Tori Carrington[6]
- Susan Carroll[14]
- Rosemary Carter
- Barbara Cartland
- Zoe Cass (pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
- Carla Cassidy[20]
- Jayne Castle[7]
- Clare Cavendish
- Diane Chamberlain
- Sara Chance (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary)[19]
- Lauryn Chandler[14]
- Anita Charles
- Marie Charles
- Loretta Chase[14]
- Marion Chesney
- Sarah Chester
- Denise Chesterton (pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- Maureen Child[21]
- Jill Christian (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
- Sue Civil-Brown[7]
- Daphne Clair
- Sydney Ann Clary (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sara Chance)[19]
- Rita Clay
- Margaret Major Cleaves
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson
- Sheila Coates
- Nicole Cody
- Jan Coffey
- Elaine Coffman
- Jackie Collins
- Phoebe Conn
- Helen Conrad
- Carla Cook
- Catherine Cookson
- Deborah Coonts
- Jilly Cooper
- Lori Copeland[8]
- Susan Coppula
- Lecia Cornwall
- Catherine Coulter[15]
- Caroline Courtney
- Josephine Cox
- Helen Crampton
- Sara Craven
- Jasmine Cresswell
- Millie Criswell[11]
- Linda Crockett
- Tanya Anne Crosby
- Jennifer Crusie[14]
- Katy Currie
D
- Janet Dailey[16]
- Claudia Dain
- Ruth Jean Dale
- Blanche d'Alpuget
- Cami Dalton
- Margot Dalton
- Barbara Daly[14]
- Lacey Dancer[11]
- Jordan Dane
- B.J. Daniels[8]
- Emma Darcy[7]
- Lilian Darcy[4]
- Iris Rainer Dart
- Trisha David
- MaryJanice Davidson[4]
- Geralyn Dawson[20]
- Sylvia Day
- Daphne de Jong
- Kit Dealtry (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Connie Deka
- Barbara Delinsky[2]
- Jude Deveraux[21]
- Jacqueline Diamond[22]
- Christina Dodd[14]
- Robyn Donald
- Sara Donati[6]
- Jane Donnelly
- Carole Nelson Douglas[11]
- Billie Douglass
- Zoe Dozier
- Bonnie Drake
- Shannon Drake[7]
- Jennifer Drew[1]
- Daphne du Maurier
- Elizabeth Duke
- Judith Duncan[23]
- Carola Dunn
- Lee Duran
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F
- Ann Fairfax
- Barbara Faith
- Colleen Faulkner
- Jane Feather[21]
- Constance Fecher (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
- Christine Feehan[5]
- Marie Ferrarella[14]
- Gina Ferris
- Katie Fforde
- Sandra Field
- Liz Fielding[14]
- Trini de Figueroa[25]
- Rebecca Flanders[26]
- Fiona Finlay
- Cardine Fleming
- Caroline Fleming
- Gaelen Foley[7]
- Norrey Ford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
- Helen Forrester
- Lori Foster[27]
- Natalie Fox
- Jacqueline Frank
- Thea Frederick
- Ashley French
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- Diana Gabaldon[14]
- Patricia Gaffney
- Abby Gaines
- Shana Galen (also known as Shane Bolks)
- Rita Gallagher
- Clarissa Garland
- Dorothy Garlock[11]
- Julie Garwood[14]
- Diane Gaston[14] (also known as Diane Perkins)
- Tess Gerritsen[14]
- Rachel Gibson[14]
- Amanda Glass
- Ruth Glick
- Elinor Glyn
- Kristi Gold[7]
- Emma Goldrick
- Sergeanne Golon
- Diana Gordon
- Lucy Gordon[14]
- Judith Gould
- Iris Gower
- Heather Graham[16]
- Lynne Graham[6]
- Jeanne Grant
- Susan Grant[14]
- Vanessa Grant
- Patricia Grasso
- Harriet Gray
- Maysie Coucher Greig
- Jennifer Greene[14]
- Tilly Greene
- Lisa Gregory
- Clarice Groom / C. Groom / Kathleen Clarice Groom / Mrs. Sydney Groom (pseudonyms by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
- Annie Groves
- Carmela Gutiérrez de Gambra
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- Elizabeth Habersham
- Ginn Hale
- Jocelyn Haley
- Alexis Hall
- Steffie Hall
- Diana Hamilton
- Hervey Hamilton (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Anne Hampson
- Jenny Han
- Lori Handeland[14]
- Kristin Hannah[14]
- Barbara Hannay[14]
- Sarah Hardesty
- Laura Hardy
- Karen Harper
- Madeline Harper
- Lisa Harris
- Elizabeth Harrison
- Jessica Hart[14]
- Sarah Hart
- Caroline Harvey
- Kathryn Harvey
- Diana Haviland
- Karen Hawkins[4]
- Constance Heaven (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
- Shirl Henke[18]
- Virginia Henley[28]
- Ann Herendeen
- Georgette Heyer
- Brenda Hiatt[1]
- Grace Livingston Hill
- Lydia Hitchcock
- Tami Hoag[2]
- Helen Hoang
- Kate Hoffmann[5]
- Joan Hohl[24]
- Sheila Holland
- Emma Holly
- Kate Holmes
- Victoria Holt (also known as Eleanor Hibbert, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr)[16]
- Kay Hooper[21]
- Linda Howard[16] (also known as Linda S. Howington)
- Hannah Howell[8]
- Elizabeth Hoyt
- Anna Hudson
- Callie Hugher
- Cally Hughes
- Charlotte Hughes[1]
- Karen Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Jena Hunt
- Jillian Hunter[18]
- Jackie Hyman
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J
- Brenda Jackson[8]
- Lisa Jackson
- Anna Jacobs
- Michele Jaffe
- Anna James
- E.L. James
- Eloisa James[27]
- Julie James
- Kristin James
- Stephanie James
- Susan James (pen name of Rochelle Alers)
- Vanessa James
- Claudia Jameson
- Kelly Jamison
- Miranda Jarrett
- Sabrina Jeffries[7]
- Michelle Jerott
- Iris Johansen[12]
- Nancy John
- Milly Johnson
- Susan Johnson[23]
- Joan Johnston[15]
- Linda O. Johnston
- Catherine Jones
- Jan Jones
- Crystal Jordan
- Laura Jordan
- Nicole Jordan[4]
- Penny Jordan[5]
- B.D. Joyce
- Brenda Joyce[2]
- Janet Joyce
- Jenna Lee Joyce
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- Karin Kallmaker
- Andrea Kane
- Julia Kane
- Kathleen Kane
- Alex Kava
- Karen Kay[7]
- Patricia Kay
- Corey Keaton
- Lindsey Kelk
- Kathleen Kellow
- Carla Kelly[14]
- Nancy Kelly
- Sharon Kendrick
- Elle Kennedy
- Kathryne Kennedy
- Lena Kennedy
- Julie Kenner
- Pamela Kent
- Cory Kenyon
- Sherrilyn Kenyon[7]
- Madeleine Ker
- Flora Kidd
- Susan King[18]
- Maggie Kingsley
- Laura Kinsale[14]
- Alexandra Kirk
- Sandra Kitt[12]
- Lisa Kleypas[14]
- TJ Klune
- Angela Knight
- Karleen Koen
- Rosanne Kohake
- Betina Krahn[14]
- Amanda Kramer
- Judith Krantz
- Jayne Ann Krentz[16] (also known as Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle)
- Susan Krinard[8]
- Lynn Kurland[14]
- Susan Kyle
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- Kate Lace
- Patricia Lake
- Rozella Lake
- Arnette Lamb[26]
- Charlotte Lamb
- Alice Elinor Lambert
- Elizabeth Lambert
- Sheila Lancaster
- Jill Marie Landis[14]
- Connie Lane
- Elizabeth Lane
- Roumelia Lane
- Chloe Lang
- Ruth Langan
- Tania Langley
- Cheryl Lanham
- Christina Lauren
- Stephanie Laurens[4]
- Constance Laux
- Kathy Lawrence
- Day Leclaire[20]
- Jane LeCompte
- Miranda Lee
- Rachel Lee[22]
- Lora Leigh
- Roberta Leigh
- Judith Lennox
- Marion Lennox[14]
- Laura Leone
- Julie Elizabeth Leto[6]
- Kathryn Le Veque
- Marjorie Lewty
- Alice Chetwynd Ley
- Sophie Leyton (a pseudonym of Sheila Walsh)
- Rachel Lindsay
- Johanna Lindsey[26]
- Cathie Linz[17]
- Rosina Lippi
- Caren Lissner
- Cait Logan
- Cait London[23]
- Hilary London
- Julia London[4]
- William Stuart Long
- Claire Lorel
- Amii Lorin
- Emilie Loring
- Claire Lorrimer (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
- Dorothy Mackie Low (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
- Elizabeth Lowell[14]
- Mary Lyons
M
- Heather MacAllister[6]
- Katie MacAlister (also known as Katie Maxwell and Kate Marsh)
- Kinley MacGregor[7]
- Allie Mackay
- Mary Mackie (also wrote as Cathy Christopher, Alex Andrews and Caroline Charles)
- Jan MacLean
- Della Campbell MacLeod
- Debbie Macomber[14]
- Ann Major
- Susan Mallery[2]
- Anne Mallory[6]
- Raynetta Mañees
- Jill Mansell
- Joanna Mansell
- Winifred Langford Mantle (also known as Jan Blaine, Anne Fellowes, Frances Lang and Jane Langford)
- Jill March
- Joanna Marcus
- Deb Marlowe
- Katherine Marlowe
- Ellen Tanner Marsh
- Debra Marshall
- Deborah Martin
- Gail Gaymer Martin
- Gail Z. Martin
- Kat Martin[18]
- Laura Martin
- Sandra Marton[12]
- Kasey Marx
- Jessica Massey
- Anne Mather (also known as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming)
- Laura Matthews
- Patricia Matthews
- A.E. Maxwell
- Kathleen Maxwell
- Mary Maxwell
- Patricia Maxwell[16]
- Anne Mayfield
- Margaret Mayo
- Anne McAllister[14]
- Laurie McBain
- Susanne McCarthy
- Barbara McCauley[14]
- May McGoldrick[1]
- Tate McKenna
- Meagan McKinney[15]
- Rena McLeary
- Barbara McMahon[1]
- Karen McManus
- Kate McMurray
- Judith McNaught[23]
- Casey McQuiston
- Teresa Medeiros[8]
- Susan Meier[4]
- Christina Merlin (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
- Stephenie Meyer
- Judith Michael
- Marie Michael
- Barbara Michaels[8]
- Fern Michaels
- Leigh Michaels[6]
- Linda Lael Miller[20]
- Serena B. Miller[14]
- Sarah Mlynowski
- Nicole Mones
- Karen Marie Moning[14]
- Karyn Monk[4]
- Margaret Moore
- Rachel Moore
- Peggy Moreland[6]
- Hunter Morgan
- Raye Morgan[4]
- Peggy Morse
- Carole Mortimer
- Jill Munroe
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P
- Lynda Page
- Rebecca Paisley[10]
- Diana Palmer[10]
- Margaret Pargeter
- Adele Parks
- Delia Parr
- Roan Parrish
- Valerie Parv
- Ann Patrick
- Lynn Patrick
- Maxine Patrick
- Lois Paxton (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
- Rachel Cosgrove Payes
- Diane Pearson
- Judith Pella
- Rafael Pérez y Pérez
- Diane Perkins[4] (also known as Diane Gaston)
- Carly Phillips
- Dorothy Phillips
- Johanna Phillips
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips[14][16]
- Joan Elliott Pickart
- Rosamunde Pilcher[29]
- Suzy Pizzuti
- Neil S. Plakcy
- Belva Plain[29]
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ida Pollock
- Patricia Ponder
- Jane Porter
- Elizabeth Power
- Heather Graham Pozzessere
- ArLynn Leiber Presser
- Evadne Price
- Mary Jo Putney[14]
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R
- Ann Radcliffe
- Radclyffe
- Karen Ranney[8]
- Francis Ray
- Jaclyn Reding
- Laura Resnick[15]
- Luanne Rice[7]
- Emilie Richards[14]
- Serena Richards
- Emma Richmond
- Christie Ridgway[7]
- Judith Merkle Riley[12]
- Christine Rimmer
- Francine Rivers[14]
- Karen Robards[2]
- J.D. Robb[14]
- JoAnn Robb
- JoAnn Robbins
- Nora Roberts[14]
- Paula Roberts
- Patricia Robertson
- Denise Robins
- Patricia Robins (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
- Suzanne Robinson
- Claire Robyns
- Pam Rock
- Rosemary Rogers[1]
- Kristine Rolofson
- Jeanne Rose
- Pam Rosenthal
- JoAnn Ross[12]
- Kathryn Ross
- Renee Roszel
- Ann Roth
- Barbara Rowan
- Rosamond Royal
- Nan Ryan[22]
- Nancy Henderson Ryan
- Patricia Ryan[14]
- Rachel Ryan
S
- Lynsay Sands[7]
- Robin Schone
- Alicia Scott
- Janey Scott
- Sara Seale
- Alexandra Sellers[21]
- Anya Seton
- Jill Shalvis[5]
- Merry Shannon
- Maggie Shayne[14]
- Jill Sheldon
- Sidney Sheldon
- Suzanne Sherrill
- Valerie Sherwood
- Gena Showalter
- Anita Shreve[1]
- Elsie Silver
- Linnea Sinclair
- Rebecca Sinclair
- Nalini Singh[30]
- Susan Sizemore[27]
- Christina Skye[20]
- Bertrice Small[7]
- Lass Small[15]
- Barbara Dawson Smith[14]
- Joan Smith
- Karen Rose Smith
- Alexandra Sokoloff
- Teresa Southwick[7]
- Nicholas Sparks
- Terry Spear
- LaVyrle Spencer
- Erin St. Claire
- Lael St. James (pen name of Linda Lael Miller)
- Danielle Steel
- Jessica Steele
- Sharon Stephens
- Mariah Stewart
- Mary Stewart[16]
- Bram Stoker
- Katherine Stone
- Alex Stuart
- Anne Stuart[14][16][27]
- Robyn Stuart
- V.A. Stuart
- Vivian Stuart
- Katherine Sutcliffe[21]
- Kari Sutherland
- Shanna Swendson
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- Gladys Taber
- Janelle Taylor[1]
- Jayne Taylor
- Jennifer Taylor
- Corín Tellado
- Sarah Temple
- Cathy Gillen Thacker[4]
- Joyce Thies
- Diane Thomas
- Jodi Thomas[14]
- Rosie Thomas
- Kate Thompson
- Vicki Lewis Thompson[8]
- Elizabeth Thornton[31]
- Kay Thorpe[6]
- Sylvia Thorpe (a pseudonym of June Sylvia Thimblethorpe)
- Jacqueline Topaz
- Betty Trask
- Elizabeth Trehearne
- Jennie Tremaine
- Adriana Trigiani
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- Tina Wainscott
- Christian Walford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
- Elizabeth Walker
- Kate Walker[4]
- Shiloh Walker
- Pamela Wallace
- Vivienne Wallington
- Maggie Walsh
- Sheila Walsh (also known as Sophie Leyton)
- J. R. Ward[4] (also known as Jessica Bird)
- Charlotte Ward
- Linda Warren
- Nancy Warren[1]
- Pat Warren
- Wendy Warren[6]
- Elsie B. Washington (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles)
- Shannon Waverly
- Margaret Way
- Joanna Wayne
- Anne Weale
- Carrie Weaver[6]
- Ingrid Weaver[14]
- Debra Webb[2]
- Peggy Webb[7]
- Meredith Webber
- Tawny Weber
- Theresa Weir[14]
- Sue-Ellen Welfonder[4]
- Kate Welsh[4]
- Sally Wentworth
- Sophie Weston[7]
- Edith Wharton
- Yvonne Whittal
- Mary Whistler
- Susan Wiggs[14]
- Jane Wilby
- Jennifer Wilde
- Lori Wilde[1] (also writes as Laura Anthony)
- Quinn Wilder
- Gina Ferris Wilkins[1]
- Lee Wilkinson
- Eileen Wilks[6]
- Bronwyn Williams
- Cathy Williams
- Tammy Williams
- Penelope Williamson[14]
- Penn Williamson
- Lauren Willig
- Patricia Wilson
- Kathleen Winsor
- Violet Winspear
- Anne Marie Winston
- Rebecca Winters[4]
- Linda Randall Wisdom[20]
- Joan Wolf[20]
- Barbara Wood
- Sara Wood
- Anne Woodard
- Kathleen E. Woodiwiss[16]
- Sherryl Woods[26]
- Victoria Woolf
- Francesca Wright
- Laura Wright[6]
- Melinda Wright
- Laura Wylie
- Trish Wylie[7]
- Pamela Wynne
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Notes
- A writer is presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the writer and their affiliates and satisfies the Wikipedia inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article.
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