Author: Rebecca Dean
Alternate names: Margaret A. Hudson Pemberton; Margaret Pemberton; Maggie Hudson; Carris Carlisle; Christina Harland; Rebecca Dean
Born: 10 April 1943
Bio: Margaret A. Hudson was born on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, of German extraction. She was daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect.

Published since 1975, she is a bestselling romance writer as Margaret Pemberton, and under the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle; Maggie Hudson and Rebecca Dean. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in different parts of the world.

She was the fifteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989-1991), she has also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.

Married with Mike Pemberton, they have five grown children, today she lives in London with her husband and four small dogs.