Charlotte Vale Allen
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| Pseudonym: | Charlotte Vale Allen, Katharine Marlowe |
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| Born: | January 19, 1941 Toronto (Canada)  |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | United States of America  |
| Writing period: | 1971 - Present |
| Genres: | Romance, Drama |
| Debut works: | Daddy's Girl |
| Website: | http://www.CharlotteValeAllen.com |
Charlotte Vale Allen (born January 19, 1941 in Toronto) is an romance writer. She lived in the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1964 working as a singer and actress. She emigrated to the United States in 1966 following a brief return to Canada. After marrying Walter Bateman Allen Jr. in 1970, she moved to Connecticut where she has lived ever since.
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[edit] Biography
Charlotte Vale Allen was born in on January 19, 1941 in Toronto and lived in England (UK) from 1961 to 1964 where she worked as a television actress and singer. She returned to Toronto briefly, performing as a singer and in cabaret revues until she emigrated to the United States in 1966.
When she married in 1970 with Walter Bateman Allen Jr., she made her home in Connecticut and she began to write. Her first book was the acclaimed Daddy's Girl, wrote in 1971, but it was deemed too controversial by the editors who read it. It wasn't until 1980, after she'd gained success as a novelist, that the groundbreaking book was finally published. She sold her first novel Love Life in 1974. Prior to this book's publication she contracted to do a series of paperback originals for Warner Books, with the result that in 1976 three of her books appeared in print.
One of Canada's most successful novelists, with over seven million copies sold of her 30+ novels, Ms. Allen's books have been published in all English-speaking countries, in Braille, and have been translated into more than 20 languages.
In her writing she tries to deal with issues confronting women, being informative while at the same time offering a measure of optimism. "My strongest ability as a writer is to make women real, to take you inside their heads and let you know how they feel, and to make you care about them."
A film buff and an amateur photographer, Allen enjoys foreign travel. She finds cooking and needlework therapeutic, and is a compulsive player of computer Solitaire. She is the mother of an adult daughter.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] As Charlotte Vale Allen
- Hidden meanings 1976
- Love life 1976
- Sweeter music 1976
- "Another Kind of Magic" in HIDDEN MEANINGS 1977
- Gentle stranger 1977
- Mixed emotions 1977
- Running away 1977
- Becoming 1978
- "Believing in giants" in MEMORIES 1978
- Gifts of love 1978
- Julia's sister 1978
- Meet me in time 1978
- Acts of kindness 1979
- Moments of meaning 1979
- Times of triumph 1979
- Daddy's girl 1980 / ISBN 0-7710-8668-7 (McLelland and Stewart); ISBN 1-892738-34-1 (Island Nation reissue)
- Promises 1980
- Perfect fools 1981
- "The marmalade man" in DESTINIES 1981
- Intimate friends 1983
- Pieces of dreams 1984
- Matters of the heart 1985
- Time/Steps 1986
- Illusions 1987
- Dream train 1988
- Night magic 1989
- Painted lives 1990
- Leftover dreams 1992
- Dreaming in color 1993
- Somebody's baby 1995 / ISBN 1-55166-124-1 (Mira)
- Claudia's shadow 1996
- Mood indigo 1997
- Parting gifts 2001
- Grace notes 2002 / ISBN 1-55166-667-7 (paperback) ISBN 1-55166-906-4 (hardcover) (Mira)
- The young person's dreambook 2002
- Fresh air 2003 / ISBN 0-7783-2023-5 (paperback) ISBN 1-55166-682-0 (hardcover) (Mira)
- Sudden moves 2004 / ISBN 0-7783-2036-7 (Mira)
[edit] As Katherine Marlowe
- Heart's desires 1991 / ISBN 1-55611-226-2 (D.I. Fine)
- Secrets 1992 / ISBN 1-56054-430-9 (Thorndike)
- Nightfall 1993
