She also is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry. A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. Robb, for "In Death", a futuristic-suspense saga. Today, Nora 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. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called Turn the Page Books. She divorced in 1983, and remarried Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, in 1985. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first romance novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published as Nora Roberts in 1981. Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love". In 1979, during a blizzard, she began writing. In 1968, she married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, and they had two sons: Dan and Jason. Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on Octoin Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, the youngest of five children from a family with Irish ancestors.
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