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She is the author of more than 60 published novels and over 30 novellas, and has met with critical success.īalogh has received numerous awards, including a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Regency Short Stories in 1993 and has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Mary Balogh won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer in that year. A Masked Deception was accepted by Signet and published in 1985. All enjoy passion, and often a marriage and/or a sensual connection precedes recognition of love.īalogh began her writing career in 1983, when she wrote her first novel A Masked Deception in the evenings at the kitchen table while home and family functioned around her. Some are courtesans, illegitimate, "fallen" or "ruined" women. Although she writes historical romances, Mary Balogh's heroines are often not "ladies". The vast majority of Balogh's novels have been set in Regency or Georgian England or Wales.

Writing career Īs an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer. She has three children and five grandchildren. She taught high-school English for a number of years, and rose to the level of school principal. There, she met and married her Canadian husband Robert Balogh, a coroner and ambulance driver, and settled in the small prairie town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. She moved to Canada on a two-year teaching contract in 1967 after leaving university. Mary Jenkins was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, daughter of Mildred Double, a homemaker, and Arthur Jenkins, a signwriter and painter. Her historical fiction is set in the Regency era (1811–1820) or the wider Georgian era (1714–1830).īiography Personal life In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Saskatchewan, where she eventually became a school principal. 2015 All About Romance Reader Award - Biggest Tearjerker Only Enchanting 2014 All About Romance Reader Award - Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. Someone to Remember: A Novella (Nov-2019)Īward-Winning Books by Mary Balogh A Christmas Bride 1997 All About Romance Reader Award - Best Regency A Counterfeit Betrothal 1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award - Regency Romance Irresistible 1998 All About Romance Reader Award - Best Regency The Last Waltz 1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award - Best Regency Romance More Than a Mistress 2000 Romance Readers Anonymous Award - Best Regency Romance (Traditional or Nontraditional) Only a Kiss 2015 All About Romance Reader Award - Best Historical Romance set in the U.K.