# List of romantic novelists

Notable novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels include:
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Laura Abbot
* Hailey Abbott
* Shana Abé
* Maria Dolores Acevedo
* Cherry Adair
* Jennie Adams
* Lara Adrian
* Cecelia Ahern
* Michele Albert
* Rochelle Alers
* Kate Alexander
* Trisha Alexander
* Victoria Alexander
* Jo Ann Algermissen
* Barbara Allen
* Charlotte Vale Allen
* Harper Allen
* Joan M. Allen
* Heather Allison
* Elizabeth Amber
* Jessica Andersen
* Susan Andersen
* Caroline Anderson
* Catherine Anderson
* Barbara Andrews
* Lucilla Andrews
* Laura Anthony (pen name of Lori Wilde)
* Jane Arbor
* Catherine Archer
* Jennifer Archer
* Catherine Archibald
* Lindsay Armstrong
* Tilly Armstrong
* Judith Arnold
* Jane Ashford
* Dawn Atkins
* Kathryn Atwood
* Jane Austen
* Anne Avery
* Jessica Ayre

## B

* Jacqueline Baird
* Anne Baker
* Faith Baldwin
* Kathleen Baldwin
* Donna Ball
* Mary Balogh
* Leanne Banks
* Maya Banks
* Michele Bardsley
* Jill Barnett
* Jean Barrett
* Susan Barrie
* Allie Bates
* Jane Beaufort
* Sally Beauman
* Alex Beecroft
* Marguerite Bell
* Elísabet Benavent
* Jayne Bentley
* Laurien Berenson
* Ariel Berk
* Elizabeth Bevarly
* Jo Beverley
* Helen Bianchin
* Janet Bieber
* Maeve Binchy
* Charlotte Bingham
* Jessica Bird (also known as J. R. Ward)
* Claudia Bishop
* Jaid Black
* Jenna Black
* Terri Blackstock
* Ally Blake
* Andrea Blake
* Jennifer Blake
* Emma Blair
* Laurien Blair
* Diana Blayne
* Annalee Blysse
* Pat Booth
* Elaine Bossik
* Donna Boyd
* Joanna Bourne
* Carla Bracale
* Barbara Taylor Bradford
* Celeste Bradley
* Rita Bradshaw
* Taylor Brady
* Joan Bramsch
* Kylie Brant
* Kate Bridges
* Laurey Bright
* P.A. Brisco / Patty Brisco
* Leigh Bristol
* Annette Broadrick
* Anne Brock
* Suzanne Brockmann
* Connie Brockway
* Anne Brontë
* Charlotte Brontë
* Emily Brontë
* Helen Brooks
* Sandra Brown
* Diana Browning
* Dixie Browning
* Niobia Bryant
* Elizabeth Buchan
* M. L. Buchman
* Nancy Buckingham
* Mary Burchell
* Eleanor Burford
* Pamela Burford
* Rose Burghley
* Nicole Burnham
* Beatrice Burton
* Rebecca Burton
* Shirlee Busbee
* Rob Byrnes

## C

* Meg Cabot
* Hall Caine
* Linda Cajio
* Candace Camp
* Bethany Campbell
* Teresa Cameselle
* Marsha Canham
* Ann Carberry
* Ruth Cardello
* Donna Carlisle
* Liz Carlyle
* Teresa Carpenter
* Philippa Carr
* Robyn Carr
* Sherry Carr (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sara Chance, and Sydney Ann Clary)
* Tori Carrington
* Susan Carroll
* Rosemary Carter
* Barbara Cartland
* Zoe Cass (pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
* Carla Cassidy
* Jayne Castle
* Clare Cavendish
* Diane Chamberlain
* Sara Chance (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary)
* Lauryn Chandler
* Anita Charles
* Marie Charles
* Loretta Chase
* Marion Chesney
* Sarah Chester
* Denise Chesterton (pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
* Maureen Child
* Jill Christian (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
* Sue Civil-Brown
* Daphne Clair
* Sydney Ann Clary (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sara Chance)
* Rita Clay
* Margaret Major Cleaves
* Wendy Coakley-Thompson
* Sheila Coates
* Nicole Cody
* Jan Coffey
* Elaine Coffman
* Jackie Collins
* Phoebe Conn
* Helen Conrad
* Carla Cook
* Catherine Cookson
* Deborah Coonts
* Jilly Cooper
* Lori Copeland
* Susan Coppula
* Lecia Cornwall
* Catherine Coulter
* Caroline Courtney
* Josephine Cox
* Helen Crampton
* Sara Craven
* Jasmine Cresswell
* Millie Criswell
* Linda Crockett
* Tanya Anne Crosby
* Jennifer Crusie
* Katy Currie

## D

* Janet Dailey
* Claudia Dain
* Ruth Jean Dale
* Blanche d'Alpuget
* Cami Dalton
* Margot Dalton
* Barbara Daly
* Lacey Dancer
* Jordan Dane
* B.J. Daniels
* Emma Darcy
* Lilian Darcy
* Iris Rainer Dart
* Trisha David
* MaryJanice Davidson
* Geralyn Dawson
* Sylvia Day
* Daphne de Jong
* Kit Dealtry (a pseudonym by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
* Connie Deka
* Barbara Delinsky
* Jude Deveraux
* Jacqueline Diamond
* Christina Dodd
* Robyn Donald
* Sara Donati
* Jane Donnelly
* Carole Nelson Douglas
* Billie Douglass
* Zoe Dozier
* Bonnie Drake
* Shannon Drake
* Jennifer Drew
* Daphne du Maurier
* Elizabeth Duke
* Judith Duncan
* Carola Dunn
* Lee Duran

## E

* Kathleen Eagle
* Mignon G. Eberhart
* Dorothy Eden
* Rosemary Edghill
* Cassie Edwards
* Mary Tate Engels
* Tina Engler
* Suzanne Enoch
* Erastes
* Lynn Erickson
* Patricia Ernst
* Leslie Esdaile
* Rita Clay Estrada
* Janet Evanovich
* Shoshanna Evers

## F

* Ann Fairfax
* Barbara Faith
* Colleen Faulkner
* Jane Feather
* Constance Fecher (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
* Christine Feehan
* Marie Ferrarella
* Gina Ferris
* Katie Fforde
* Sandra Field
* Liz Fielding
* Trini de Figueroa
* Rebecca Flanders
* Fiona Finlay
* Cardine Fleming
* Caroline Fleming
* Gaelen Foley
* Norrey Ford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
* Helen Forrester
* Lori Foster
* Natalie Fox
* Jacqueline Frank
* Thea Frederick
* Ashley French

## G

* Diana Gabaldon
* Patricia Gaffney
* Abby Gaines
* Shana Galen (also known as Shane Bolks)
* Rita Gallagher
* Clarissa Garland
* Dorothy Garlock
* Julie Garwood
* Diane Gaston (also known as Diane Perkins)
* Tess Gerritsen
* Rachel Gibson
* Amanda Glass
* Ruth Glick
* Elinor Glyn
* Kristi Gold
* Emma Goldrick
* Sergeanne Golon
* Diana Gordon
* Lucy Gordon
* Judith Gould
* Iris Gower
* Heather Graham
* Lynne Graham
* Jeanne Grant
* Susan Grant
* Vanessa Grant
* Patricia Grasso
* Harriet Gray
* Maysie Coucher Greig
* Jennifer Greene
* Tilly Greene
* Lisa Gregory
* Clarice Groom / C. Groom / Kathleen Clarice Groom / Mrs. Sydney Groom (pseudonyms by Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell Klein Dealtry Groom)
* Annie Groves
* Carmela Gutiérrez de Gambra

## H

* Elizabeth Habersham
* Ginn Hale
* Jocelyn Haley
* Alexis Hall
* Steffie Hall
* Diana Hamilton
* Hervey Hamilton (a pseudonym of Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson)
* Laurell K. Hamilton
* Anne Hampson
* Jenny Han
* Lori Handeland
* Kristin Hannah
* Barbara Hannay
* Sarah Hardesty
* Laura Hardy
* Karen Harper
* Madeline Harper
* Lisa Harris
* Elizabeth Harrison
* Jessica Hart
* Sarah Hart
* Caroline Harvey
* Kathryn Harvey
* Diana Haviland
* Karen Hawkins
* Constance Heaven (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
* Shirl Henke
* Virginia Henley
* Ann Herendeen
* Georgette Heyer
* Brenda Hiatt
* Grace Livingston Hill
* Lydia Hitchcock
* Tami Hoag
* Helen Hoang
* Kate Hoffmann
* Joan Hohl
* Sheila Holland
* Emma Holly
* Kate Holmes
* Victoria Holt (also known as Eleanor Hibbert, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr)
* Kay Hooper
* Linda Howard (also known as Linda S. Howington)
* Hannah Howell
* Elizabeth Hoyt
* Anna Hudson
* Callie Hugher
* Cally Hughes
* Charlotte Hughes
* Karen Hughes
* Victor Hugo
* Jena Hunt
* Jillian Hunter
* Jackie Hyman

## I

* Averil Ives
* Judith Ivory

## J

* Brenda Jackson
* Lisa Jackson
* Anna Jacobs
* Michele Jaffe
* Anna James
* E.L. James
* Eloisa James
* Julie James
* Kristin James
* Stephanie James
* Susan James (pen name of Rochelle Alers)
* Vanessa James
* Claudia Jameson
* Kelly Jamison
* Miranda Jarrett
* Sabrina Jeffries
* Michelle Jerott
* Iris Johansen
* Nancy John
* Milly Johnson
* Susan Johnson
* Joan Johnston
* Linda O. Johnston
* Catherine Jones
* Jan Jones
* Crystal Jordan
* Laura Jordan
* Nicole Jordan
* Penny Jordan
* B.D. Joyce
* Brenda Joyce
* Janet Joyce
* Jenna Lee Joyce

## K

* Karin Kallmaker
* Andrea Kane
* Julia Kane
* Kathleen Kane
* Alex Kava
* Karen Kay
* Patricia Kay
* Corey Keaton
* Lindsey Kelk
* Kathleen Kellow
* Carla Kelly
* Nancy Kelly
* Sharon Kendrick
* Elle Kennedy
* Kathryne Kennedy
* Lena Kennedy
* Julie Kenner
* Pamela Kent
* Cory Kenyon
* Sherrilyn Kenyon
* Madeleine Ker
* Flora Kidd
* Susan King
* Maggie Kingsley
* Laura Kinsale
* Alexandra Kirk
* Sandra Kitt
* Lisa Kleypas
* TJ Klune
* Angela Knight
* Karleen Koen
* Rosanne Kohake
* Betina Krahn
* Amanda Kramer
* Judith Krantz
* Jayne Ann Krentz (also known as Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle)
* Susan Krinard
* Lynn Kurland
* Susan Kyle

## L

* Kate Lace
* Patricia Lake
* Rozella Lake
* Arnette Lamb
* Charlotte Lamb
* Alice Elinor Lambert
* Elizabeth Lambert
* Sheila Lancaster
* Jill Marie Landis
* Connie Lane
* Elizabeth Lane
* Roumelia Lane
* Chloe Lang
* Ruth Langan
* Tania Langley
* Cheryl Lanham
* Christina Lauren
* Stephanie Laurens
* Constance Laux
* Kathy Lawrence
* Day Leclaire
* Jane LeCompte
* Miranda Lee
* Rachel Lee
* Lora Leigh
* Roberta Leigh
* Judith Lennox
* Marion Lennox
* Laura Leone
* Julie Elizabeth Leto
* Kathryn Le Veque
* Marjorie Lewty
* Alice Chetwynd Ley
* Sophie Leyton (a pseudonym of Sheila Walsh)
* Rachel Lindsay
* Johanna Lindsey
* Cathie Linz
* Rosina Lippi
* Caren Lissner
* Cait Logan
* Cait London
* Hilary London
* Julia London
* William Stuart Long
* Claire Lorel
* Amii Lorin
* Emilie Loring
* Claire Lorrimer (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
* Dorothy Mackie Low (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
* Elizabeth Lowell
* Mary Lyons

## M

* Heather MacAllister
* Katie MacAlister (also known as Katie Maxwell and Kate Marsh)
* Kinley MacGregor
* Allie Mackay
* Mary Mackie (also wrote as Cathy Christopher, Alex Andrews and Caroline Charles)
* Jan MacLean
* Della Campbell MacLeod
* Debbie Macomber
* Ann Major
* Susan Mallery
* Anne Mallory
* Raynetta Mañees
* Jill Mansell
* Joanna Mansell
* Winifred Langford Mantle (also known as Jan Blaine, Anne Fellowes, Frances Lang and Jane Langford)
* Jill March
* Joanna Marcus
* Deb Marlowe
* Katherine Marlowe
* Ellen Tanner Marsh
* Debra Marshall
* Deborah Martin
* Gail Gaymer Martin
* Gail Z. Martin
* Kat Martin
* Laura Martin
* Sandra Marton
* Kasey Marx
* Jessica Massey
* Anne Mather (also known as Caroline Fleming and Cardine Fleming)
* Laura Matthews
* Patricia Matthews
* A.E. Maxwell
* Kathleen Maxwell
* Mary Maxwell
* Patricia Maxwell
* Anne Mayfield
* Margaret Mayo
* Anne McAllister
* Laurie McBain
* Mary McBride
* Susanne McCarthy
* Barbara McCauley
* Sharron McClellan
* May McGoldrick
* Tate McKenna
* Meagan McKinney
* Rena McLeary
* Barbara McMahon
* Karen McManus
* Kate McMurray
* Judith McNaught
* Casey McQuiston
* Teresa Medeiros
* Susan Meier
* Christina Merlin (a pseudonym by Constance Fecher Heaven)
* Stephenie Meyer
* Judith Michael
* Marie Michael
* Barbara Michaels
* Fern Michaels
* Leigh Michaels
* Linda Lael Miller
* Serena B. Miller
* Sarah Mlynowski
* Nicole Mones
* Karen Marie Moning
* Karyn Monk
* Margaret Moore
* Rachel Moore
* Peggy Moreland
* Hunter Morgan
* Raye Morgan
* Peggy Morse
* Carole Mortimer
* Jill Munroe

## N

* Nancy Naigle
* Susan Naiper
* Betty Neels
* Deborah Nicholas
* Marie Nicole
* Celeste O. Norfleet
* Freya North
* Brenda Novak

## O

* Constance O'Day-Flannery
* Laurel O'Donnell
* Elisabeth Ogilvie
* Janette Oke
* Elizabeth Oldfield
* Margaret O'Neill
* Kathy Orr
* Ruth Owen

## P

* Lynda Page
* Rebecca Paisley
* Diana Palmer
* Margaret Pargeter
* Adele Parks
* Delia Parr
* Roan Parrish
* Valerie Parv
* Ann Patrick
* Lynn Patrick
* Maxine Patrick
* Lois Paxton (a pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low)
* Rachel Cosgrove Payes
* Diane Pearson
* Judith Pella
* Rafael Pérez y Pérez
* Diane Perkins (also known as Diane Gaston)
* Carly Phillips
* Dorothy Phillips
* Johanna Phillips
* Susan Elizabeth Phillips
* Joan Elliott Pickart
* Rosamunde Pilcher
* Suzy Pizzuti
* Neil S. Plakcy
* Belva Plain
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Ida Pollock
* Patricia Ponder
* Jane Porter
* Elizabeth Power
* Heather Graham Pozzessere
* ArLynn Leiber Presser
* Evadne Price
* Mary Jo Putney

## Q

* Angela Quarles
* Carol Queen
* Erica Quest
* Amanda Quick (also known as Jayne Ann Krentz, Jayne Castle)
* Julia Quinn
* Paula Quinn

## R

* Ann Radcliffe
* Radclyffe
* Karen Ranney
* Francis Ray
* Jaclyn Reding
* Laura Resnick
* Luanne Rice
* Emilie Richards
* Serena Richards
* Emma Richmond
* Christie Ridgway
* Judith Merkle Riley
* Christine Rimmer
* Francine Rivers
* Karen Robards
* J.D. Robb
* JoAnn Robb
* JoAnn Robbins
* Nora Roberts
* Paula Roberts
* Patricia Robertson
* Denise Robins
* Patricia Robins (a pseudonym of Patricia Denise Robins)
* Suzanne Robinson
* Claire Robyns
* Pam Rock
* Rosemary Rogers
* Kristine Rolofson
* Jeanne Rose
* Pam Rosenthal
* JoAnn Ross
* Kathryn Ross
* Renee Roszel
* Ann Roth
* Barbara Rowan
* Rosamond Royal
* Nan Ryan
* Nancy Henderson Ryan
* Patricia Ryan
* Rachel Ryan

## S

* Lynsay Sands
* Robin Schone
* Alicia Scott
* Janey Scott
* Sara Seale
* Alexandra Sellers
* Anya Seton
* Jill Shalvis
* Merry Shannon
* Maggie Shayne
* Jill Sheldon
* Sidney Sheldon
* Suzanne Sherrill
* Valerie Sherwood
* Gena Showalter
* Anita Shreve
* Elsie Silver
* Linnea Sinclair
* Rebecca Sinclair
* Nalini Singh
* Susan Sizemore
* Christina Skye
* Bertrice Small
* Lass Small
* Barbara Dawson Smith
* Joan Smith
* Karen Rose Smith
* Alexandra Sokoloff
* Teresa Southwick
* Nicholas Sparks
* Terry Spear
* LaVyrle Spencer
* Erin St. Claire
* Lael St. James (pen name of Linda Lael Miller)
* Danielle Steel
* Jessica Steele
* Sharon Stephens
* Mariah Stewart
* Mary Stewart
* Bram Stoker
* Katherine Stone
* Alex Stuart
* Anne Stuart
* Robyn Stuart
* V.A. Stuart
* Vivian Stuart
* Katherine Sutcliffe
* Kari Sutherland
* Shanna Swendson

## T

* Gladys Taber
* Janelle Taylor
* Jayne Taylor
* Jennifer Taylor
* Corín Tellado
* Sarah Temple
* Cathy Gillen Thacker
* Joyce Thies
* Diane Thomas
* Jodi Thomas
* Rosie Thomas
* Kate Thompson
* Vicki Lewis Thompson
* Elizabeth Thornton
* Kay Thorpe
* Sylvia Thorpe (a pseudonym of June Sylvia Thimblethorpe)
* Jacqueline Topaz
* Betty Trask
* Elizabeth Trehearne
* Jennie Tremaine
* Adriana Trigiani

## V

* Karen Van der Zee
* Mona Van Wieren

## W

* Tina Wainscott
* Christian Walford (a pseudonym of Norren Dilcock)
* Elizabeth Walker
* Kate Walker
* Shiloh Walker
* Pamela Wallace
* Vivienne Wallington
* Maggie Walsh
* Sheila Walsh (also known as Sophie Leyton)
* J. R. Ward (also known as Jessica Bird)
* Charlotte Ward
* Linda Warren
* Nancy Warren
* Pat Warren
* Wendy Warren
* Elsie B. Washington (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles)
* Shannon Waverly
* Margaret Way
* Joanna Wayne
* Anne Weale
* Carrie Weaver
* Ingrid Weaver
* Debra Webb
* Peggy Webb
* Meredith Webber
* Tawny Weber
* Theresa Weir
* Sue-Ellen Welfonder
* Kate Welsh
* Sally Wentworth
* Sophie Weston
* Edith Wharton
* Yvonne Whittal
* Mary Whistler
* Susan Wiggs
* Jane Wilby
* Jennifer Wilde
* Lori Wilde (also writes as Laura Anthony)
* Quinn Wilder
* Gina Ferris Wilkins
* Lee Wilkinson
* Eileen Wilks
* Bronwyn Williams
* Cathy Williams
* Tammy Williams
* Penelope Williamson
* Penn Williamson
* Lauren Willig
* Patricia Wilson
* Kathleen Winsor
* Violet Winspear
* Anne Marie Winston
* Rebecca Winters
* Linda Randall Wisdom
* Joan Wolf
* Barbara Wood
* Sara Wood
* Anne Woodard
* Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
* Sherryl Woods
* Victoria Woolf
* Francesca Wright
* Laura Wright
* Melinda Wright
* Laura Wylie
* Trish Wylie
* Pamela Wynne

## X-Z

* Jane Yardley
* Rebecca York
* Karen Young
* Mia Zachary
* Carolyn Zane