Tag: Women

1923: The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors…

The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors, and receives more than 700 submissions in its first year. The first winner, The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson, is later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1924). More

The Thorn Birds

McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More

1943: Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is published…

Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a story about growing up poor in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, shines a light on first- and second-generation Americans living in poverty. More

Their Eyes Were Watching God

One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More

Bel Canto

Patchett’s critically acclaimed novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. More

Mary Kubica

I read to transport myself. More

Mary Kubica

Caroline Overington

I read to observe the world as it is seen by others; to walk the planet as strangers do; to breathe a story that is not my own. More

Caroline Overington

Judith Kerr

Why I write: Usually, so that I can do the illustrations. More

Judith Kerr

1970: Harlequin acquires Mills & Boon…

Harlequin acquires Mills & Boon and brings Harlequin books beyond bookstores and into supermarkets, drugstores, and other places women frequent. More

Prince Charles reading a Harlequin Mills & Boon title

Prince Charles checks out The Pirate by Jayne Ann Krentz, a Harlequin Mills & Boon title, at the library in Perth, Scotland, in 1995. More

The Growth of Harlequin Romance

Lawrence Heisey, a former soap salesman who had been appointed president of Harlequin in 1971, revolutionized romance publishing by distributing Harlequin romances to supermarkets and department stores, where they would be right at the fingertips of Canadian and American homemakers. More

Agatha Christie at her Devonshire home

Agatha Christie, known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, is the best-selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. More

Tara Moss

Thanks to my parents, I’ve been a passionate reader since childhood. More

Tara Moss

Ursula Nordstrom

When Anne Carroll Moore, the powerful and opinionated superintendent of children’s work at the New York Public Library, asked Harper & Brothers editor Ursula Nordstrom why she felt qualified to produce children’s books, Nordstrom said only this: “Well, I am a former child, and I haven’t forgotten a thing.” More

Lysa TerKeurst

I’ll never forget going through Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby and Victory Over the Darkness by Neil Anderson simultaneously as a new Christian. More

Lysa TerKeurst

The Transformation of Harlequin

By the 1990s, Harlequin had become synonymous with romance novels, grown the category into a score of successful subgenre lines, opened offices around the world, and seen its books made available in more than 100 countries and 30 languages. More

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Tudor court seen as never before; this take on the Boleyn sisters reinvented the historical novel. More

Diana Palmer

The first romance novel I ever read was Margaret Way’s Red Cliffs of Malpara. More

Diana Palmer

A Woman of Substance

With her unforgettable heroine Emma Harte, Bradford popularized the rags-to-riches family saga. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Lauren Oliver

I read so that I can learn and I write so that I can explore. More

Lauren Oliver

The Shipping News

Highly acclaimed international bestseller; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More

People of the Book

Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year 2008. More

Nikki Gemmell

Reading is a haven, a harbor, to shelter me from the toss of the world. More

Nikki Gemmell

Social Change: Sex in the 20th Century

In between the two world wars, Harper authors tackled the then taboo subject of sex. More

1993: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years…

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years, which recounts her eleven and a half years at London’s 10 Downing Street, the official prime minister’s residence, with HarperCollins. More

Meg Cabot

I write because of readers like Diana Moreno, who handed me a letter recently telling me that, as the firstborn daughter of immigrants, she felt lonely and shy when she arrived here in 2004 . . . until she found my books. More

Meg Cabot