Considering Kate

Eleanor Marie Robertson

Eleanor Marie Robertson aka Nora Roberts is an American author of more than

225 romance novels such as Considering Kate, Awakening, Nightwork etc. She also

wrote the Brazen Virtue which A Guide to the 'Brazen' Heroes — and Suspects Film was based on

this novel.

With over 225 novels she became famous and acknowledged by people. She was born on

October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland. U.S she is the youngest of five children her parents are

Bernard E. Robertson and Eleanor Robertson. Her family were avid readers, so books were always

important in her life. She did not write as a child even she had always made stories in her mind. She

attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her

second year in high school, Roberts transferred to a local public school, Montgomery Blair High

School where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. They married, against her parents'

wishes, in 1968, as soon as she had graduated from high school. They settled in Boonsboro,

Maryland. She gave birth to her two sons. Dan and Jason. Roberts became a homemaker and would

later refer to this time period as her "Earth Mother" years. Roberts spent much of her time doing

crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1983.
 Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build

bookshelves in July 1985. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro,

Maryland called Turn the Page Books. He also works as an adult content photographer and

videographer.

Her Career in writing starts during a blizzard in February 1979 while housebound with her two

small boys. While writing down her ideas for the first time, she fell in love with the writing process,

and quickly produced six manuscripts. She submitted her manuscripts to Harlequin, the leading

publisher of romance novels, but was repeatedly rejected. SHE Published her first book in 1981

which is the Irish Thoroughbed.