Occupation novelist Genre Romance, suspense Language English Name Linda Sole | Nationality British Role Writer Period 1980–Present | |
Pen name Lynn Granville,
Anne Herries,
Linda Sole,
Emma Quincey,
Juliana Linden Notable awards Romantic Novelists' Association Awards Books Forbidden Lady, Captive of the Harem, A Damnable Rogue, Lord Ravensden's Marriage, A Perfect Knight | ||
Linda Sole (b. 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is an awarded and prolific British writer of romance and suspense novels since 1980, she also writes under the pseudonyms of Lynn Granville, Anne Herries, Emma Quincey, and Juliana Linden. In 2004, her novel A Damnable Rogue won the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Biography
Linda M. Sole was born on 1950 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a ladies hairdresser. At 9, her family moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire, where she attended the local school. After leaving High School at 15, she worked as a hairdresser in her father's business until she married at 18. She worked in her husband's antique shop, where she combined her job with writing since 1976.
Sole sold her first novel in 1979 at Robert Hale, she published four novels under the pseudonym of Lynn Granville . She published her first novels as Anne Herries at Mills & Boon, now also wrote at Severn House under this pseudonym and under her real name Linda Sole. She also published a novel under the pseudonym of Juliana Linden, and two gothic novels under the pseudonym of Emma Quincey.
Sole and her husband, continued living in Cambridgeshire, with a second home in Norfolk, during years they spend their holidays in Spain.