Sandra Kitt

Charles, John
Mosley, Shelley
(2007) Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers
Topic
Shana Abé
Cherry Adair
Catherine Anderson
Judith Arnold
Adele Ashworth
Patti Berg
Elizabeth Bevarly
Rosanne Bittner
Stephanie Bond
Elizabeth Boyle
Pamela Britton
Suzanne Brockmann
Connie Brockway
Lisa Cach
Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Susannah Carleton
Liz Carlyle
Emily Carmichael
Maureen Child
Jennifer Crusie
Claudia Dain
Geralyn Dawson
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Alice Duncan
Elisabeth Fairchild
Diane Farr
Colleen Faulkner
Jo Ann Ferguson
Christine Flynn
Gaelen Foley
Gwynne Forster
Lori Foster
Roz Denny Fox
Barbara Freethy
Judith E. French
Patricia Gaffney
Lisa Gardner
Roberta Gellis
Tess Gerritsen
Rachel Gibson
Elizabeth Grayson
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Leigh Greenwood
Shirley Hailstock
Robin Lee Hatcher
Lorraine Heath
Candice Hern
Sandra Hill
Vicki Hinze
Kate Huntington
Eloisa James
Susan Johnson
Nicole Jordan
Julie Kenner
Lynn Kerstan
April Kihlstrom
Sandra Kitt
Patricia Knoll
Betina Krahn
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Susan Krinard
Leslie LaFoy
Jill Marie Landis
Cathie Linz
Merline Lovelace
Katie MacAlister
Debbie Macomber
Annette Mahon
Sandra Marton
Amanda McCabe
Judi McCoy
May McGoldrick
Teresa Medeiros
Linda Lael Miller
Mary Alice Monroe
Brenda Novak
Janeen O'Kerry
Kayla Perrin
Carly Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Lisa Plumley
Mary Jo Putney
Tara Taylor Quinn
Francis Ray
Jaclyn Reding
Emilie Richards
Evelyn Richardson
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Lauren Royal
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Regina Scott
Kathryn Shay
Christina Skye
Bertrice Small
Tina St. John
Deb Stover
Sharon Swann
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Jane Toombs
Pat Warren
Sherri WhiteFeather
Susan Wiggs
Rebecca York
Drew, Bernard A.
(2007) 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited
Topic
African American romance
Rochelle Alers
Tina McElroy Ansa
Leslie Esdaile Banks
Angela Benson
Michele Andrea Bowen
Connie Briscoe
Anita Richmond Bunkley
Aisha Ford
Gwynne Forster
Sharon Ewell Foster
Patricia Haley
E. Lynn Harris
Donna Hill
Brenda Jackson
Beverly Jenkins
Sandra Kitt
Felicia Mason
Evelyn Palfrey
Francis Ray
Kimberla Lawson Ruby
Eboni Snoe
Chassie L. West
Alice Wootson
Courtni Wright
Frank Yerby
Zane
Kamblé, Jayashree
(2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture 46.3:252-265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488
Topic
race/ethnicity
Publishing
Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)
United States of America
social/economic class
work
Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington
Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Kitt
Barbara Stephens
Valerie Flournoy
history
sex/sexuality
Rochelle Alers
Donna Hill
Kamblé, Jayashree
(2025) The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and Category Romance Novels from 1980 to 1988 Contemporary Women's Writing 19: DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaf005
Topic
Publishing
race/ethnicity
Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)
United States of America
Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington
Barbara Stephens
Frances Flores
Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan
community
settings
Jean Hager
Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Kitt
Valerie Flournoy
work
Rochelle Alers
food, drink
Charles, John
Mosley, Shelley
(2007) Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers
Topic
Shana Abé
Cherry Adair
Catherine Anderson
Judith Arnold
Adele Ashworth
Patti Berg
Elizabeth Bevarly
Rosanne Bittner
Stephanie Bond
Elizabeth Boyle
Pamela Britton
Suzanne Brockmann
Connie Brockway
Lisa Cach
Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Susannah Carleton
Liz Carlyle
Emily Carmichael
Maureen Child
Jennifer Crusie
Claudia Dain
Geralyn Dawson
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Alice Duncan
Elisabeth Fairchild
Diane Farr
Colleen Faulkner
Jo Ann Ferguson
Christine Flynn
Gaelen Foley
Gwynne Forster
Lori Foster
Roz Denny Fox
Barbara Freethy
Judith E. French
Patricia Gaffney
Lisa Gardner
Roberta Gellis
Tess Gerritsen
Rachel Gibson
Elizabeth Grayson
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Leigh Greenwood
Shirley Hailstock
Robin Lee Hatcher
Lorraine Heath
Candice Hern
Sandra Hill
Vicki Hinze
Kate Huntington
Eloisa James
Susan Johnson
Nicole Jordan
Julie Kenner
Lynn Kerstan
April Kihlstrom
Sandra Kitt
Patricia Knoll
Betina Krahn
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Susan Krinard
Leslie LaFoy
Jill Marie Landis
Cathie Linz
Merline Lovelace
Katie MacAlister
Debbie Macomber
Annette Mahon
Sandra Marton
Amanda McCabe
Judi McCoy
May McGoldrick
Teresa Medeiros
Linda Lael Miller
Mary Alice Monroe
Brenda Novak
Janeen O'Kerry
Kayla Perrin
Carly Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Lisa Plumley
Mary Jo Putney
Tara Taylor Quinn
Francis Ray
Jaclyn Reding
Emilie Richards
Evelyn Richardson
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Lauren Royal
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Regina Scott
Kathryn Shay
Christina Skye
Bertrice Small
Tina St. John
Deb Stover
Sharon Swann
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Jane Toombs
Pat Warren
Sherri WhiteFeather
Susan Wiggs
Rebecca York
Mussell, Kay
Tuñón, Johanna
(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press
Topic
authors
United States of America
Judith Arnold
Mary Balogh
Jo Beverley
Loretta Chase
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas
Sharon and Tom Curtis
Justine Davis/Justine Dare
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Kathleen Eagle
Patricia Gaffney
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Lorraine Heath
Tami Hoag
Susan Johnson
Dara Joy
Lynn Kerstan
Sandra Kitt
Susan Krinard
Jill Marie Landis
Pamela Morsi
Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
Mary Jo Putney
Alicia Rasley
Emilie Richards
Paula Detmer Riggs
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Jennifer Crusie
romance scholarship
Romney, Rebecca
(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix
Topic
Publishing
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
work
Harlequin Mills & Boon
historical romance
Christian romance
gothic romance
romantic suspense
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
YA/teenage romance
African American romance
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Frances Brooke
Canada
Elizabeth Inchbald
Frances Burney
Sydney Owenson
national identity
Ireland
Ouida
May Agnes Fleming
Laura Jean Libbey
Emma Wolf
religion/spirituality
Judaism
Pauline Hopkins
Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton
Japan
Elinor Glyn
Louise Gerard
Barbara Cartland
Laura Lou Brookman
Kathleen Thompson Norris
romances in magazines and newspapers
Elizabeth Carfrae
Frances Shelley Wees
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway
Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie
Alice Lent Covert
Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Australia
Faith Baldwin
Mary Renault
medical romance
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton
Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe
Janet Dailey
Lydia Maria Child
Charlotte M. Yonge
Mary Johnston
Susa Young Gates
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Rosemary Rogers
June Lund Shiplett
paratext
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
science fiction/futuristic romance
Valerie Belgrave
Caribbean
Beverly Jenkins
Jane Austen
Susan Ferrier
Georgette Heyer
Amii Lorin
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan
Sandra Kitt
Maureen Wartski
Augusta Jane Evans
Florence Barclay
Ethel M. Dell
Janette Oke
Beverly Lewis
Charlotte Brontë
Harriet Lewis
Virginia Coffman
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Phyllis A. Whitney
Mary Stewart
Daoma Winston
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rita Clay Estrada
Lori Herter
Jean Webster
Robin McKinley
Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West
Marie G. Lee
race/ethnicity
Paula Christian
Isabel Miller
Gordon Merrick
Ann Allen Shockley
Vincent Virga
Nancy Garden
Katherine V. Forrest
Loretta Chase
Brenda Jackson
Mussell, Kay
Tuñón, Johanna
(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press
Topic
authors
United States of America
Judith Arnold
Mary Balogh
Jo Beverley
Loretta Chase
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas
Sharon and Tom Curtis
Justine Davis/Justine Dare
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Kathleen Eagle
Patricia Gaffney
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Lorraine Heath
Tami Hoag
Susan Johnson
Dara Joy
Lynn Kerstan
Sandra Kitt
Susan Krinard
Jill Marie Landis
Pamela Morsi
Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
Mary Jo Putney
Alicia Rasley
Emilie Richards
Paula Detmer Riggs
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Jennifer Crusie
romance scholarship