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Abra Taylor (1932 – February 26, 2005)
real name Barbara Brouse
pen name Araby Scott

Alex Stuart (January 2, 1914 – August 1986)
real Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart
pen name Vivian Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, Robyn Stuart, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long

Alexandra Ripley (January 8, 1934 - January 10, 2004)

Alice Elinor Lambert (January 8, 1886 - February 19, 1981)

Alice Morgan (? - January 18, 1996)

Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - September 24, 1933)

Alice Thomas Ellis (September 9, 1932 - March 8, 2005)
real name Anna Haycraft

Anne George (1927 - March 14, 2001)
real name Anne Carroll George

Anne Weale (June 20, 1930 - October 24, 2007)

Anya Seton (January 23, 1904/1906/1916 - November 8, 1990)
real name Ann Seton

Arnette Lamb (January 12, 1947 - September 18, 1998)
         

Barbara Burnett Smith (? - February 19, 2005)

real Barbara Jo Petry

Barbara Cartland (July 9, 1901 – May 21, 2000)
real name Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland

Barbara Karmazin (January 13, 1952 – July 6, 2010)

Barbara Taylor Bradford (born May 10, 1933)

Betty Beaty

Betty Neels (September 15, 1910 - June 7, 2001)
   

Catherine Cookson (June 20, 1906 - June 11, 1998)

Celeste De Blasis (May 8, 1947 - April 13, 2001)

Charles Norris Williamson (1859 – October 3, 1920)

Cheryl Anne Porter (? - August 25, 2004)

Christine Monson (1946 – September 11, 2003)

Constance Gluyas (March 28, 1920 – August 1983)

Constance Heaven (August 6, 1911 - 1995)

Constance Holme (October 7, 1880 - June 17, 1955)

Constance M. Evans (March 15, 1888 - ?)
real name Constance May Evans
pen name Mairi O'Nair, Jane Gray
             

Daphne du Maurier (May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989)

Dawn Thompson (March 28, 1937 - February 8, 2008)

pen name Dawn MacTavish

Denise Robins (February 1, 1897 – May 1, 1985)
real name Denise Naomi Klein
pen name Denise Chesterton, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Hervey Hamilton, Julia Kane, Francesca Wright

Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993)
real name Dorothy Belle Flanagan

Dorothy Dunnett (August 25, 1923 - November 9, 2001)

Dorothy Eden (April 3, 1912 – March 4, 1982)
real name Dorothy Enid Eden
pen name Mary Paradise
   

E.M. Hull (August 16, 1880 - February 11, 1947)

real name Edith Maude Winstanley Henderson

Edith Layton (? – June 1, 2009)

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968)

Elinor Glyn (October 17, 1864 - September 23, 1943)

Elizabeth Carfrae (March 21, 1879 – 1968)

Elizabeth Daniels Squire (July 17, 1926 – February 25, 2001)

Elizabeth Gilzean (March 1, 1913 – 1995)
real name Elizabeth Houghton Blanchet Gilzean Parry
pen name Elizabeth Houghton, Mary Hunton

Elizabeth Mansfield (? - December 21, 2003)

Emilie Loring (1864 - March 13, 1951)
real name Emilie Baker Loring

Eric Knight (April 10, 1897 - January 15, 1943)

pen name Richard Hallas

Essie Summers (July 24, 1912 - August 27, 1998)

Esther Wyndham (July 31, 1908 – April 9, 1999)
real name Mary Lutyens

Evadne Price (1896/1901 – April 17, 1985)
pen name Helen Zenna Smith
     

Faith Baldwin (October 1, 1893 – March 18, 1978)
real name Faith Baldwin Cuthrell
pen name Faith B. Cuthrell

Fanny Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 - January 13, 1955)

Fay Robinson (September 25, 1952 - December 2, 2002)
real Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Fern Michaels (born April 9, 1933)
real name Mary Ruth Kuczkir

Flora Kidd (1926 - March 19, 2008)

Florence L. Barclay (December 2, 1862 – March 10, 1921)
real name Florence Louisa Charlesworth Barclay

Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 - July 3, 1970)
 

Gladys Taber (April 12, 1899 - March 11, 1980)

Grace Livingston Hill (April 16, 1865 – 1947)
           

Helen Hooven Santmyer (November 25, 1895 - February 21, 1986)

Helen Topping Miller (December 8, 1884 - February 4, 1960)
           

I.A.R. Wylie (March 16, 1885 - November 4, 1959)
real name Ida Alexa Ross Wylie

Ida Pollock (born April 12, 1908)
pen name Susan Barrie, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Anita Charles, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Barbara Rowan, Mary Whistler, Marguerite Bell

Irene Northan (? - June 1993)
pen name Elizabeth Lowther

Iris Bancroft (May 26, 1922 - December 2003)

Iris Johansen (born April 7, 1938)
     

Jack Iams (November 15, 1910 – January 27, 1990)

real name Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr.

Jack Woodford (March 25, 1894 – May 1971)
real name Josiah Pitts Woolfolk
pen name Sappho Henderson Britt, Howard Hogue Kennedy, Gordon Sayrem, Jack Woolfolk

James Hadley Chase (December 24, 1906 - February 6, 1985)

real name Rene Brabazon Raymond
pen name James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, Raymond Marshall

Jan Cox Speas (November 5, 1925 - October 31, 1971)

Jan Tempest (December 6, 1904 - October 26, 1988)

Jan Westcott (born February 23, 1912)
real name Jan Westcott Vlachos Barden

Jane Arbor (September 8, 1903 - February 4, 1994)

Janet Edgar (?- May 17, 2005)

Jean S. MacLeod (January 20, 1908 - April 20, 2011)

pen name Catherine Airlie

Jennifer Wilde (January 8, 1938 - January 16, 1990)

real name Tom Elmer Huff
pen name Edwina Marlow, Beatrice Parker, Katherine St. Clair, T.E. Huff

Jessica Steele (born May 9, 1933)

Jilly Cooper (born February 21, 1937)

Joan Aiken (September 4, 1924 - January 4, 2004)

Joan Van Nuys (April 13, 1929 - May 20, 2000)

Josephine Tey (July 25, 1896 – February 13, 1952)

real name Elizabeth Mackintosh
pen name Gordon Daviot

Judith Krantz (born January 9, 1928)

Julie Ellis (1933 – February 2006)
pen name Susan Marino, Susan Marvin, Susan Richard

Juliet Dymoke (June 28, 1919 - 2001)
           

Kate Ross (June 21, 1956 - March 12, 1998)
real name Katherine Jean Ross

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (June 3, 1937 – July 6, 2007)
real name Kathleen Erin Hogg Woodiwiss

Kathleen Givens (? - January 2, 2010)

Kathleen Norris (July 16, 1880 - January 18, 1966)

Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003)

Karl Eskelund (January 7, 1918 - 1972)

Kit Dealtry (March 11, 1872 - 1954)
real name Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom
pen name C. Groom, Mrs. Sydney Groom, Kathleen Clarice Groom
 

L.A. Banks (? - August 2, 2011)

Laura Black (May 1, 1929 – February 26, 2000)
real name Roger Erskine Longrigg
pen name Rosalind Erskine, Ivor Drummond, Megan Barker, Grania Beckford, Frank Parrish, Domini Taylor

Lida Larrimore (June 27, 1896 - July 2, 1960)

Lilian Peake (May 25, 1924 - 1997)
real name Lilian Margaret Peake

Linda Lewis (1937 - March 1, 2004)
real name Linda Kay West
pen name Linda Kay, Dixie Kane

Louise Redfield Peattie (June 14, 1900 - ?)

Lucy Agnes Hancock (? – April 29, 1962)

Lydia Lee (1945 – February 12, 2002)

real name Lydia Lee Weeks Green
pen name Rose Marie Lima

M.M. Kaye (August 21, 1908 - January 29, 2004)

Marcine Smith (January 21, 1936 - February 4, 2007)

Margaret Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 - January 4, 1982)

Margaret Mayo (born February 7, 1935)

real name Jessica Mayo

Margaret Millar (February 5, 1915 - March 26, 1994)
real name Margaret Ellis Millar Sturm

Marjorie Lewty (April 8, 1906 - January 21, 2002)

Marlene Suson (December 22, 1936 - January 22, 2005)

real name Joan Sweeney

Mary Burchell (1904 - December 22, 1986)

real name Ida Cook

Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 - April 7, 1976)

Mary Taffs (November 9, 1953 – April 21, 2004)

Maurice Dekobra (May 26/28, 1885 – June 2, 1973)
real name Ernest Maurice Tessier

Maysie Greig (August 2, 1901 - June 10, 1971)

Mildred Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002)
real name Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson
pen name Carolyn Keene, Frank Bell, Mildred Benson, Joan Clark, Julia K. Duncan, Alice B. Emerson, Frances K. Judd, Don Palmer, Helen Louise Thorndyke, Dorothy West, Ann Wirt
     

Olive Higgins Prouty (January 10, 1882 – March 24, 1974)

Olive Norton (January 13, 1913 - 1973)

real name Olive Marion Claydon Norton
pen name Hilary Neal, Kate Norway, Bess Norton
           

Pamela Macaluso (1952 – March 1997)

Pat Booth (? – May 11, 2009)

Patricia Matthews (July 1,1927 - December 07, 2006)


Patricia Robins (born February 1, 1921)

pen name Claire Lorrimer

Paul Leicester Ford (March 23, 1865 - May 8, 1902)

Paula Danziger (August 18, 1944 – July 8, 2004)

Pearl S. Buck (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973)
real name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck
pen name John Sedges

Peggy Gaddis (March 5, 1895 - June 14, 1966)
pen name Peggy Dern

Penelope Fitzgerald (December 17, 1916 – April 28, 2000) real name Penelope Knox

Phyllis A. Whitney (September 9, 1903 – February 8, 2008)

Phyllis Matthewman (1896 - July 30, 1979)
         

Rebecca Rothenberg (March 16, 1948 – April 15, 1998)

Rebecca Stratton (? - January 5, 1982)

pen name Lucy Gillen

Rita Gallagher (1922 - February 1, 2004)

Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005)

Ronda Thompson (1956- July 11, 2007)

Rosalind Welles (December 28, 1942 – May 5, 2009)
real name Elsie Bernice Washington
pen name Elsie B. Washington

Ruby M. Ayres (January 28, 1883 - November 14, 1955)

Ruth Adams Knight (1894/1898 – May 10, 1974)

Sally Wentworth (1937 – August 30, 2001)

Sandra Canfield (November 21, 1944 - January 23, 2003)

pen name Karen Keast, Sandi Shane

Sara Seale (? - October 30, 1978)
real name A.D.L. MacPherson or Jane MacPherson

Sheila Walsh (1928 - January 20, 2009)

pen name Sophie Leyton

Sophie Cole (1862 - February 11, 1947)

Sophie Dunbar (1947 – May 11, 2001)

Suzanne Barclay (? – September 15, 1999)
 

Temple Bailey (1885 – July 6, 1953)
real name Irene Temple Bailey

Tom Gill (January 21, 1891 – May 21, 1972)
real name Thomas Harvey Gill
           

Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1900 – September 1957)
real name Katherine Ursula Towle
             

Vicente Blasco Ibαρez (January 29, 1867 - January 28, 1928)

Vicki Baum (January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960)

Victoria Holt (September 1, 1906 - January 18, 1993)

real name Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert
pen name Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, Ellalice Tate

Violet Winspear (April 28, 1928 - 1989)

Virginia Coffman (July 30, 1914 – March 30, 2005)
pen name Kay Cameron, Virginia C. Deuvaul, Jeanne Duval, Diana Saunders, Ann Stanfield

Virginia Ellis (1951 - January 18, 2006)

pen name Lyn Ellis
   

W.E.D. Ross (November 16, 1909/1912 - November 1, 1995)
real name William Edward Daniel Ross
pen name Clarissa Ross, Marilyn Ross and W.E.D. Ross

Wendy Garrett (March 20, 1953/1956 – March 1, 1998)
real name Wendy Haley
           

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