This book offers an overview of the contributions of author Nora Roberts to the popular literary market.

Nora Roberts's captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader's guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, short stories and novellas, futuristic mysteries written as J.D. Robb, and titles under other pseudonyms.

Reading Nora Roberts shows how this remarkable author expands the limits of the genres in which she writes, exploring feminist ideas, Celtic and Western settings, psychological and religious themes, and Gothic and supernatural elements. The book also highlights Roberts's willingness to have her characters face serious real-world issues, including sexism and racism, gun violence, abortion, suicide, corporate greed, and career burnout.

• Details models of dialogue, slang, and humor, illustrating Nora Roberts's intuitive replication of human quandaries and compromises
• Includes a timeline of Nora Roberts's life and career, which began in 1979 with a novel and magazine story and advanced to story anthologies, novellas, romances, sagas, trilogies and quartets, Gothic romance, and futuristic thrillers

She has produced 68 New York Times bestsellers and more titles overall than Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel, Harold Robbins, and Sidney Sheldon combined. She is one of only two authors on Time's 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential People. She is Nora Roberts, and if you think she is merely another romance novelist, you are about to learn there is more to her story.

About the Author

Mary Ellen Snodgrass, a professor of Latin and English at Lenoir Rhyne University, is an award-winning author of textbooks and reference works and a former columnist of the Charlotte Observer.

Book Information
ISBN 9780313362934
Author Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Format Hardback
Page Count 155
Imprint Libraries Unlimited Inc
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc