Jeanne Hines
| Jeanne Hines | |
|---|---|
| Born | 
1922 (age 93–94) West Virginia, United States  | 
| Pen name | 
Jeanne Hines, Valerie Sherwood, Rosamond Royal  | 
| Occupation | Novelist | 
| Nationality | American | 
| Period | 1973 - 1991 | 
| Genre | Gothic fiction, Romance | 
Jeanne Hines (born 1922 in West Virginia) is an American writer of gothic novels as her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal.[1]
Biography
Jeanne Hines was born in Moorefield, West Virginia, the daughter of Llewellyn Brown McNeill and Bess Heiskell McNeil. She grew up in a traditional family, but dreamed of doing something more than marrying and becoming a housewife. She married in 1943 Edward Thomas Hines (March 2, 1914 - Dec. 8, 2001) and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, but she was writing while she traveled with her husband between their five mansions along the East Coast.[2]
She worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator before turning to fiction and becoming a novelist. Published since 1973, she penned gothic novels under her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal until 1991. She won the Romantic Times 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award in the category of "historical adventure".[3]
When author Chris Marie Green (aka Crystal Green), was 19, she wrote a fan letter to Hines, and the historical author answered the gushing missive and inspired her to write her first romance. [4]
Bibliography
As Jeanne Hines
Single novels
- The Slashed Portrait, 1973
 - Tidehawks, 1974
 - Talons of the Hawk, 1975
 - Bride of Terror, 1976
 - Scarecrow House, 1976
 - The Legend of Witchwynd, 1976
 - The Keys to Queenscourt, 1976
 - The Third Wife, 1977
 
As Valerie Sherwood
Single novels
- This Loving Torment, August 1977
 - These Golden Pleasures, November 1977
 - Lovely Lying Lips, December 1983
 - Born to Love, June 1984
 - To Love a Rouge, October 1987
 - Her Crowning Glory, 1988
 - Lisbon, September 1989
 
Angel Series
- This Towering Passion, November 1978
 - Her Shining Splendor, July 1980
 - The Mistress, 1991
 
Love Series
- Bold Breathless Love, August 1981
 - Rash Reckless love, June 1982
 - Wild Willful Love, October 1982
 - Rich Radiant Love, June 1983
 
Song Series
- Lovesong, September 1985
 - Windsong, March 1986
 - Nightsong, September 1986
 
As Rosamond Royal
- Rapture, 1979
 
References and sources
- ↑ Historical Romance Writers Author: Jeanne Hines
 - ↑ Reaping the Wild Rewards of Romance
 - ↑ Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine: Romance, Mystery and Women's Fiction Reviews
 - ↑ Crystal Green's Bio