Sandra Brown is a modern American novelist, a recognized master of amorous and adventurous stories. The writer lives an eventful life, engages in charity work and, despite her advanced age, issues at least one best seller per year.
Childhood and youth
The biography of the future queen of action-packed ladies' novels began in 1948. Sandra was born in the Texas town of Waco, in a prosperous and well-to-do family. Later, the writer herself noted that her childhood was even too calm - nothing interesting and awakening the imagination was happening in a quiet town.
After graduating from school, Sandra entered Texas Christian University - it was such an education that was considered acceptable for a prosperous girl, focused not only on her career, but on a successful family. True, an exemplary student did not have the opportunity to finish school - she soon met her future husband and moved to his homeland, Oklahoma.
Having settled in a new place. Sandra applied to the local university and after a few years received her coveted diploma. Then began the search for their place in life. The young woman tried herself in the acting field, was a model, a participant in advertising shootings, worked as an administrator in a store. However, a real vocation found her by accident - the idea of becoming a writer was suggested by one of the guests of a talk show organized by her husband. At a writing conference in Houston, Miss Brown made the firm decision to become a true professional.
Career and creativity
Sandra began with short stories and short stories, offering them to literary magazines. Her style fell to the taste of editors and the public, a few months after the release of the first works, the novice writer managed to conclude a contract with the publishing house. The conditions proposed by Sandra Brown were rather stringent: she had to submit 6 manuscripts a year, which were published under different pseudonyms. The novice novelist honestly fulfilled all the points of the contract. In the 80s, she wrote books published under the pseudonyms of Rachel Ryan. Laura Jordan, Erin St. Clair.
The year 1987 was a turning point - by this time the writer decided to get out of the shadows and publish under her own name. The first swallow was the novel "Like Two Drops of Water", published in 1990 and included in the list of the best books of the year according to the New York Times. The novel was highly praised by critics and readers who liked the easy syllable and intricate plot intrigue. The author skillfully interwoven mystical and detective threads with love and romance, creating unusual books that differ from banal ladies' novels. The stories invented by Sandra Brown were liked not only by bored housewives and adolescents, but also by intellectuals.
In the 90s and early 2000s, a successful novelist wrote at least 3 novels a year, but later significantly slowed down, releasing only one book each year. However, regular readers noted that the new tactics benefited her: the plots became more diverse and whimsical, they appeared original motifs and an abundance of characters with different characters.
Among the most popular action-packed novels by Sandra Brown:
- “Crossing the Borders” (1985);
- “Like two drops of water” (1990);
- French Silk (1992);
- “Alien Intrigues” (1996);
- "Envy" (2001);
- Ricochet (2006);
- The Smoke Screen (2008);
- The Witness (2011);
- The Loop of Desire (2012);
- “Cabin in the mountains” (2014);
- Honey Nights (2014).
In addition to action-packed novels, Sandra wrote more traditional books in the melodramatic genre. Readers especially fell in love with complex stories with strong, but gentle heroines, who inevitably get out of difficult life situations. Bestseller lists regularly included books published between 1981 and 1993:
- "Reckless love";
- "Silk web";
- "Wedding Wreath";
- "Unexpected Pirouette";
- "Tiger Prince" and others.
In total, 37 books were written in the genre “Modern Love Romance” (including the earliest ones reprinted a few years later).
Sandra Brown's books have been translated into foreign languages and repeatedly reprinted. Some of them were filmed, and the script was written by the novelist herself. In 1998, the writer received the prestigious Guild of American Romantic Authors Guild Award, and in 1998 became the winner of the American Business Women Association Award.
