Born Ruth Greenberg, and raised in suburban Boston, Barbara Delinsky worked as a sociology researcher in children's services and was a newspaper photographer and reporter before turning to fiction writing full-time. In point of fact, she never intended to pursue a literary career. But, in the early 1980s, a newspaper article profiling three women who successfully balanced home, family, and romance writing caught her attention. Intrigued, she spent months researching and writing her first novel. It sold -- and Delinsky was off and running.

Praised by critics and fans alike for her character driven studies of marriage, parenthood, and friendship, Delinsky is one of a small cadre of successful women writers (including Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown) who started out writing pseudonymous paperbacks for the category romance genre and muscled their way onto the bestseller lists with hardcover escapist fiction. Yet she is candid about the hard work involved and insists there's no tried-and-true formula that converts automatically to easy money. As if to prove her own point, Delinsky works from eight in the morning to about seven at night, writing in the office above the garage in her Newton, Massachusetts home; doing research; handling interviews; or -- her least favorite part of the job -- touring the country making author appearances.

Over the decades Delinsky has written dozens of novels that have landed on The New York Times bestseller list, including Twilight Whispers (1988), For My Daughters (1994), Three Wishes (1997), Flirting with Pete (2003), and Family Tree (2007). In 2001, she published her first nonfiction title, Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. A cancer survivor herself, she has earmarked all the profits from the sale of this book to benefit breast cancer research.

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Title: The Dream: A Crosslyn Rise Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Suddenly, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: A Woman's Place: A Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: The Real Thing, Author: Barbara Delinsky
#1 in Series
Title: The Dream Unfolds: A Crosslyn Rise Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: The Dream Comes True: A Crosslyn Rise Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Twilight Whispers, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: A Time to Love, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: The Carpenter's Lady, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Crossed Hearts, Author: Barbara Delinsky
#2 in Series
Title: The Forever Instinct, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Heart of the Night: A Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: The Invitation, Author: Barbara Delinsky
#3 in Series
Title: Fast Courting, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Hold My Heart, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: What the Waves Bring, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Commitments: A Novel, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: The Scent of Jasmine, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: Sweet Ember, Author: Barbara Delinsky
Title: First Things First, Author: Barbara Delinsky

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