Barbara Delinsky
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| Pseudonym: | Bonnie Drake Billie Douglass, Barbara Delinsky |
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| Born: | August 9, 1945 Boston, Massachusetts (USA)  |
| Occupation: | Novelist, non-fiction writer |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
| Writing period: | 1981 - present |
| Genres: | Romance, sentimental |
| Subjects: | Breast Cancer |
| Debut works: | Love and cherish |
| Website: | http://www.barbaradelinsky.com/ |
Barbara Ruth Greenberg Delinsky (born August 9, 1945, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a best-selling American writer of more than sixty-five romance and mainstream fiction novels. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake, Billie Douglass and her real name Barbara Delinsky.
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[edit] Biography
Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother died when she was only eight. In 1976, she graduated from Newton High School, in Newton, Massachusetts. She then went on to earn a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in Sociology at Boston College.
Delinsky married Steve Delinsky, a law student, when she was very young. During the first years of her marriage, she worked for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After the birth of her first child, Andrew, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald newspaper. She also filled her time doing volunteer work at hospitals, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and their Women's Cancer Advisory Board.
In 1980, after having a pair of twins, Eric and Jeremy, Delinsky read an article about three female writers, and decided to try putting her imagination on paper. After three months of researching, plotting, and writing, she sold her first book. Since then, over 20 million copies of her books are in print, and they have been published in 25 languages. One of her novels, A Woman's Place, was made into a Lifetime movie starring Lorraine Bracco.
In 2001 Delinsky branched out into nonfiction with the book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. A breast cancer survivor herself, Barbara donates the proceeds of that book and her second nonfiction work to charity. With those funds she has been able to fund an oncology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital that trains breast surgeons.
The Delinsky family resides in Newton, Massachusetts. Steve Delinsky has become a reputed lawyer of the city, while Barbara writes daily in her office above the garage at her home.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] As Bonnie Drake
- Surrender by Moonlight (1981)
- Lilac Awakening (1982)
- The Silver Fox (1983)
- Passionate Touch (1983)
- Passion and Illusion (1983)
- Sweet Ember (1983)
- Sensuous Burgundy (1983)
[edit] As Billie Douglass
- Knightly Love (1982)
- A Time to Love (1982)
- Sweet Serenity (1982)
- Flip Side of Yesterday (1983)
- The Carpenter's Lady (1983)
- Beyond Fantasy (1983)
- Fast Courting (1983)
- An Irresistible Impulse (1983)
[edit] As Barbara Delinsky
[edit] Crosslyn Rise Series
- 01. The Dream (1990)
- 02. The Dream Unfolds (1990)
- 03. The Dream Comes True (1990)
- Dreams (omnibus) (1999)
[edit] Single Novels
- A Special Something (1984)
- Finger Prints (1984)
- Secret of the Stone (1985)
- Chances Are (1985)
- First, Best and Only (1986)
- The Real Thing (1986)
- Straight from the Heart (1986)
- Within Reach (1986)
- Twelve Across (1987)
- Heat Wave (1987)
- A Single Rose (1987)
- Cardinal Rules (1987)
- Twilight Whispers (1987)
- Jasmine Sorcery (1988)
- First Things First (1989)
- Through My Eyes (1989)
- Heart of the Night (1989)
- Montana Man (1989)
- Commitments (1990)
- Facets (1990)
- Having Faith (1990)
- A Woman Betrayed (1991)
- The Stud (1991)
- The Outsider (1992)
- The Forever Instinct (1992)
- The Passions of Chelsea Kane (1992)
- Bronze Mystique (1992)
- Tender Loving Care (1993)
- More Than Friends (1993)
- Gemstone (1993)
- Threats and Promises (1993)
- Variation on a Theme (1994)
- Suddenly (1994)
- For My Daughters (1994)
- Fulfillment (1995)
- Shades of Grace (1995)
- Together Alone (1995)
- Search for a New Dawn (1995)
- Expecting! (1996)
- Father Figure (1997)
- A Woman's Place (1997)
- Three Wishes (1997)
- Rekindled (1998)
- Coast Road (1998)
- Moment to Moment (1998)
- Lake News (1999)
- The Vineyard (2000)
- The Woman Next Door (2001)
- An Accidental Woman (2002)
- Lost in the Night (2003)
- Flirting with Pete (2003)
- The Summer I Dared (2004)
- Father of the Bride (2004)
- Looking for Peyton Place (2005)
- Family Tree (2007)
[edit] Omnibus
- A Special Something / the Forever Instinct (1991)
- Three Complete Novels: A Woman Betrayed / Within Reach / Finger Prints (1993)
- Threats and Promises / Her Secret Pash (1993) (with Amanda Stevens)
- Barbara Delinsky: A Collection (1994)
- Forever Yours: Threats and Promises / The Aristocrat / Loving Evangeline (1997) (with Catherine Coulter and Linda Howard)
- Sensuous Burgundy / Gemstone (1997)
- Coast Road / Three Wishes (1998)
- Heart and Soul (1998) (with Stella Cameron and Linda Howard)
- Heatwave (Omnibus) (1998) (with Tess Gerritsen and Linda Lael Miller)
- Summer Lovers (1998) (with Elizabeth Lowell and Anne Stuart)
- Sensuous Burgundy and Gemstone 2-in-1 (1998)
- Dangerous Desires (1999) (with Jayne Ann Krentz and Anne Stuart)
- Father of the Bride / Handsome as Sin (2001)
- Meant to Be (2001) (with Jayne Ann Krentz and Kristine Rolofson)
- Bronze Mystique / Secrets in Silence (2001) (with Gayle Wilson)
- Bronze Mystique and Secrets in Silence (2001)
- Passion: Chances Are/Be Mine, Valentine/Mingled Hearts/Dazzle/Married to the Enemy (2002)
- In Too Deep (2003) (with Stephanie Bond)
- Family Passions (2004) (with Tess Gerritsen)
[edit] Collections
Passion and Illusion / The Carpenter's Lady (1998)
[edit] Non fiction
Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors (2001) Does A Lobsterman Wear Pants? (2005)
