J.D. Robb

Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, the youngest of five children from a family with Irish ancestors. In 1968, she married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, and they had two sons: Dan and Jason. In 1979, during a blizzard, she began writing. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first romance novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published as Nora Roberts in 1981. She divorced in 1983, and in 1985 married Bruce Wilder, a carpenter. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called Turn the Page Books.

Today, Eleanor is one of the most prolific and beloved writers in the world, with more than 200 novels and 300 million copies of her books in print as Nora Roberts, for her romance novels, and as J. D. Robb, for her futuristic mystery novels. When she's not writing, she tends to her gardens.