Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called Turn the Page Books. Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985. Roberts spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. Roberts became a homemaker and would later refer to this time period as her 'Earth Mother' years. She gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason. Roberts' husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company.

The newly married couple settled in Boonsboro, Maryland. They married, against her parents' wishes, in 1968, as soon as she had graduated from high school.

During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to a local public school, Montgomery Blair High School, where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. Really good ones-some of which my mother still believes.' She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. Although she had always made up stories in her head, Roberts did not write as a child, other than essays for school. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Both of her parents have Irish ancestors, and she has described herself as 'an Irishwoman through and through'.

Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Life and career Personal life Early years As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot. Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels.

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