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J.T. Geissinger

Achilles Tatius

Adeline Sergeant

Adriana Herrera

African American romance

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

Alexandra Sellers

Alexandria House

Alexis Harrington

Alice Grant Rosman

Alice Lent Covert

Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love

Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

Alyxandra Harvey

Amani N'Guessan/Nathalie Amani N'Guessan épouse Gbalou

Ameera Al Hakawati

Ana Marcela García

Andrew O’Connor

Ángeles Villarta Tuñón

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Ann Allen Shockley

Anna Harrington

Annabeth Albert

Anne Singe et Marine Ange

Annette Charles

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

Anthony Trollope

April Kihlstrom

Ashley Herring Blake

Audrey Niffenegger

Augusta Jane Evans

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Barbara Cartland

Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Ferry Johnson

Barbara Freethy

Barbara McMahon

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Barbara Perkins

Barbara Stephens

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Beatrice Grimshaw

Bertrand Gauthier

Bessie Marchant

Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Sommers

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Bithia Mary Croker

Brigitte Bautista

Bronwyn Williams

Brunella Gasperini

Candace Schuler

Candice Proctor

capitalism/business

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

Carmen Cabiling

Carmen de Icaza

Carole Mortimer

Carolina Invernizio

Caroline Anderson

Caroline Stevermer

Casey McQuiston

Cassandra Clare

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Catherine Anderson

Catherine Cookson

Catherine Coulter

Catherine George

Catherine Marshall

Catherine Mulvany

Cathy Gillen Thacker

Cathy Sablan Gault

Celeste Bradley

Charlaine Harris

Charles Brockden Brown

Charles Garvice

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte M. Brame

Charlotte M. Yonge

Charlotte Stein

Charlotte Vale-Allen

Chassie L. West

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chimamanda Adichie

Christen Anne Kelley

Christian romance

Christina C. Jones

Christina Lauren

Christina Schiller

Christine Feehan

Christine Flynn

Christine Marion Fraser

Christine Warren

Cindy Woodsmall

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Claire Thornton

Claire von Glümer

Clara Bernice Miller

Claudette Nicole

Claudia Jameson

Colleen Faulkner

Colleen Gleason

Colleen McCullough

computer/video/digital games

Concha Linares-Becerra

Concordia Merrel

Connie Brockway

Connie Rinehold

Constance M. Evans

Constance O'Day Flannery

Constance O’Banyon

contemporary romance

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Danielle Monsch

Daphne du Maurier

Darlene Marshall

Debbie Macomber

Deborah Simmons

Debra White Smith

Delariver Manley

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Donna Maree Hanson

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Doreen Owens Malek

Dorothy Canfield

Dorothy Dowdell

Dorothy MacCardle

E. D. E. N. Southworth

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Elaine Raco Chase

Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica

Elisabeth Fairchild

Elisabeth Macdonald

Elizabeth Ashton

Elizabeth Bevarly

Elizabeth Boyle

Elizabeth Carfrae

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gilzean

Elizabeth Graham

Elizabeth Grayson

Elizabeth Hunter

Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Kingston

Elizabeth Lowell

Elizabeth Mayne

Elizabeth Power

Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Vaughn

Ellen Wilkinson

Emilie Richards

Emily Carmichael

Ernest Choquette

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Evelyn Everett-Green

Evelyn Richardson

evolutionary psychology

Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio

fairytales/folktales

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

fashion/clothing

Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Fayrene Preston

Flora Annie Steel

Florence Barclay

Florence Riddell

Frances Shelley Wees

Frances Watkins Harper

Francine Rivers

Galina Kulikova

Gene Stratton-Porter

genre definitions

Georgette Heyer

Gertrude Schalk

Gilbert Frankau

Ginger Chambers

Giorgio Scerbanenco

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

Grace Livingston Hill

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Helen Dore Boylston

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

historical romance

Homa Puresfahani

Isabelle Holland

Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Williams

Jacquie D'Allessandro

James Earl Hardy

Jane Aiken Hodge

Janet Evanovich

Janet Wellington

Janice Kay Johnson

Jasmine Cresswell

Jasmine Guillory

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Jeanette Winterson

Jeannette Ahonsou

Jennifer Ashley

Jennifer Crusie

Jennifer Fulton

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Jennifer Hallock

Jill Marie Landis

Jo Ann Ferguson

Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander

Joan Elliott Pickart

Joan Sutherland

Joanna Trollope

Johanna Lindsey

Joseph W. Yoder

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Judith E. French

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Judith McNaught

Juliana Conners

Julie Anne Long

Julie Tetel Andresen

Juliet Armstrong

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

June Lund Shiplett

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

K. Fatym/Kaba Fanta

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

Karen Kingsbury

Karen Marie Moning

Karen Templeton

Karen van der Zee

Karin Kallmaker

Kate Huntington

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Katharine Bruce Glasier

Katharine Kincaid

Katherine Garbera

Katherine Locke

Katherine Stone

Katherine V. Forrest

Kathleen Drymon

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kathleen Harrington

Kathleen Morgan

Kathleen O’Neal Gear

Kathleen O’Reilly

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kathleen Winsor

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Katie MacAlister

Kelley Armstrong

Kerrelyn Sparks

Kim Vogel Sawyer

Kimberla Lawson Ruby

Koussoh Mélika/Hélène Soungalo Diomandé

Krista and Becca Ritchie

Kristan Higgins

Lani Wendt Young

Larry Duplechan

Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre

Laura Jean Libbey

Laura Lee Guhrke

Laura Lou Brookman

Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurie Schnebly Campbell

LaVyrle Spencer

Leigh Greenwood

Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel

lesbian romance

Leslie Esdaile Banks

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

libraries/librarians

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Linda Lael Miller

Lindsay McKenna

Linnea Sinclair

Lisa Marie Rice

Lizzette Carter

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Louisa May Alcott

Louise Bergstrom

Lualhati Bautista

Luciana Peverelli

Luciana Peverelli

Lucilla Andrews

Lucille Colleton

Lucy Agnes Hancock

Ludwig Philippson

Luisa-María Linares

Lurlene McDaniel

Lydia Maria Child

Lynne Raye Harris

Lyssa Kay Adams

Mabel Barnes Grundy

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Maggie Stiefvater

Marcelle Tinayre

Marcia King-Gamble

Margaret Baillie-Saunders

Margaret Evans Porter

Margaret Malcolm

Margaret Mallory

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Pargeter

Margaret Pedler

Margaret Summerton

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys

Marguerite Kaye

Marguerite Lees

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

María Adela Durango

María del Pilar Carré

Maria Edgeworth

María Mercedes Ortoll

María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal

Marianne K. Martin

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau

Marion Smith Collins

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Marjorie M. Liu

Marjorie Norrell

Mary Alice Monroe

Mary Bradford Whiting

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Tate Engels

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Maryam Sahabi Liman

Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou

Maureen Bronson

Maureen Wartski

May Agnes Fleming

Meagan McKinney

medical romance

Megan Crane writing as Caitlin Crews

Melissa McClone

Meredith Fletcher

Meredith Webber

Merline Lovelace

metaphor/symbolism

Michele Andrea Bowen

Micheline Perron

Michelle Douglas

Michelle Martin

Michelle Styles

Mina V. Esguerra

Miriam Macgregor

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Mrs F. E. Penny

Muazzez Tahsin Berkand

Natalie Anderson

Natalie Normann

Nataly von Eschstruth

Natal’ia Mironova

national identity

Native American romance

Nicholas Sparks

Nicole Alexander

Nicole C. Vosseler

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

Nora K. Strange

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

O. Douglas/Anna Buchan

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Parinush Saniee

Patricia Briggs

Patricia Gaffney

Patricia Gallagher

Patricia Matthews

Patricia Mennen

Patricia Pellicane

Patricia Potter

Patricia Veryan

Patrick Califia

Paula Christian

Paula Detmer Riggs

Pauline Hopkins

Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay

Penelope Douglas

Penelope Williamson

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Petra Pierre-Robertson

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Phyllis A. Whitney

Phyllis Matthewman

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

pirates and outlaws

police officers/police forces

Polly Forrester

Qiongyao/Qiong Yao

Rachael Treasure

Rachel Alexander

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rachel Spangler

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

Rafael Sabatini

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rebecca Flanders

Rebecca Stratton

Rebekah Weatherspoon

religion/spirituality

Rhoda Broughton

Rita Clay Estrada

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Robert Hitchens

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Robin Lee Hatcher

rom-com romance

romance and, or as, activism

romance scholarship

romances in magazines and newspapers

romantic suspense

Rosa María Aranda

Rosalie Henaghan

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Rosamond du Jardin

Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosanna Leprohon

Rosanne Bittner

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rosemary Carter

Rosemary Rogers

Roslyn Hardy Holcomb

Roya Khosronajdi

Ruth Lininger Dobson

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Sabrina Jefferies

Sabrina Jeffries

Salomon Formstecher

Samuel Richardson

Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta

Sandra Canfield

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

science fiction/futuristic romance

science/technology

Serge Azialé/Seraz

Sergeanne Golon

Shari MacDonald

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Sharon Ewell Foster

Sharon Kendrick

Shelly Laurenston

Sherri WhiteFeather

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Shirley Hailstock

Simona Ahrnstedt

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Walter Scott

social/economic class

socialism and/or communism

Stefania Bertola

Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Stephanie Howard

Stephanie Laurens

Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Suleikha Snyder

Susa Young Gates

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Fraser King

Susanna Kearsley

Susannah Carleton

Suzanne Brockmann

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Forster

Suzanne Robinson

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Sylvain Reynard

SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

Tamera Alexander

Tara Taylor Quinn

Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy

teaching romance

Teresa Edgerton

Teresa Medeiros

Terry Blackstock

Tina McElroy Ansa

Tracey Garvis Graves

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

United Arab Emirates

United States of America

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

Uzma Jalaluddin

Valerie Belgrave

Valerie Flournoy

Valerie K. Nelson

Valerie Sherwood

Vicki Lewis Thompson

Victoria Aldridge

Victoria Gordon

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Violet Winspear

Virginia Coffman

Virginie Dussault

Vivian Stephens

Wallace Hamilton

Walter Jon Williams

Wanda Brunstetter

war/armed forces

wealth/prosperity

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Winston Churchill

Xenophon of Ephesus

YA/teenage romance

Yeveny Bomou/Bomou Karidja