 |
 |
|
|
Fast Facts
- Publishing her first romance in 1978, Catherine Coulter has been writing non-stop for the past twenty-four years.
- Catherine Coulter pioneered the character-linked series in the historical romance genre. Her Song, Star, Magic, Night, Bride, Viking, and Legacy series let readers revisit their favorite characters again and again.
- Not only does Catherine Coulter write romances, but she has also published seven FBI thrillers. The latest installment, Eleventh Hour, will be released in July 2002.
- Catherine Coulter has written forty-two consecutive New York Times Bestsellers, beginning with Moonspun Magic in 1988.
- Catherine Coulter writes on a schedule, publishing a historical romance every January and Savich & Sherlock suspense novel every summer.
top of page
|
|
Bio
Catherine Coulter is the author of fifty novels, thirty-eight of which have been New York Times bestsellers. She earned her reputation writing historical romances, but in recent years turned her hand to penning --- with great success --- contemporary suspense novels. The Cove spent nine weeks on The New York Times paperback bestseller list and sold more than one million copies. The Maze was Coulter's first book to land on The New York Times hardcover bestseller list. A review of The Maze in Publisher's Weekly stated that it "was gripping enough to establish Coulter firmly in this genre." Coulter continues to live up to that promise with her subsequent New York Times bestselling FBI thrillers The Target, The Edge, Riptide, and Hemlock Bay. Her newest FBI thriller, Eleventh Hour, will be released in the summer 2002.
Catherine Coulter's first novel, The Autumn Countess, was published at the end of 1978 when she had just reached puberty. It was a Regency romance because, as she says, "as any publisher will tell you, it's best to limit the unknowns in a first book, and not only had I grown up reading Georgette Heyer, but I earned my M.A. degree in 19th century European history."
Following The Autumn Countess (a Gothic masquerading as a Regency, she says), Catherine wrote six more Regency romances. In 1982, she published her first long historical, Devil’S Embrace. She has continued to write long historicals, interspersing them with hardcover contemporary novels, beginning with False Pretenses in 1988.
Catherine grew up on a horse ranch in Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas and received her masters at Boston College. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked on Wall Street as a speechwriter for a company president. She loves to travel and ski, reads voraciously, and has a reputation for telling jokes—believing the publishing business is too crazy not to laugh. Catherine lives in Marin County, California with her physician husband. She loves to travel, sacrifices her body on the ski slopes and reads voraciously while recuperating. Because she's over forty, she's at the gym three times a week.
top of page
|
|
 
|
Catherine R. Coulter
