| 词条 | Catherine Coulter |
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|image = |imagesize = 150px | | name = Catherine Coulter | caption = | pseudonym = Catherine Coulter | birth_name = Jean Catherine Coulter | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|12|26|mf=y}} | birth_place = Cameron County, Texas, U.S. | occupation = Romance novelist | nationality = American | period = 1978–present | genre = Romantic novel, historical romance, contemporary suspense thrillers | website = {{URL|http://www.catherinecoulter.com}}}}Jean Catherine Coulter (born December 26, 1942) is an American author of romantic suspense thrillers and historical romances who currently resides in northern California.[1] BiographyEarly yearsCoulter grew up on a horse ranch in Cameron County, Texas.[2] Her grandmother, who died at the young age of 37, was also a writer. Her father was a painter and singer, and her mother is a retired concert pianist. Coulter wrote her first two novels, fifteen pages each, when she was fourteen. While a freshman at the University of Texas, Coulter wrote poetry. After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Coulter attended Boston College and earned a master's degree in early 19th-century European history.[2] She took a job as a speechwriter for a Wall Street executive. As her own husband was then a medical student, she spent many of her evenings alone, reading romance novels. One night when they were home together, she found herself in the middle of a particularly bad book and threw it across room, asserting that even she could do better. Her husband challenged her to prove herself, and the two spent the weekend plotting out a storyline for a gothic romance. She wrote the novel in the evenings. {{Citation needed|date=November 2012}} Writing careerWhen Coulter finished writing her novel she sent it to an editor at Signet. Three days later Signet offered her a three-book contract. That first novel, The Autumn Countess, was published by Penguin Books in 1978. By 1982, she was earning enough to quit her job and become a full-time writer.[3] Since then she has written over fifty books and has had forty-two consecutive New York Times Bestsellers since 1988. Her thriller The Maze was her first book to place on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list, while The Cove spent nine weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list and sold over one million copies.[2] Coulter generally publishes one historical romance and one suspense novel each year, and has been busily rewriting many of her earlier Regency romances to turn them into longer historical romances.[4] Personal lifeCoulter sits down at her computer every morning at 6:30 a.m. to review her email before beginning writing at 7:30 a.m. She normally finishes writing by 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Coulter lives in Sausalito, California with her husband.[2][5] BibliographyRegencyBaron series
The Sherbrooke series
Grayson Sherbrooke's Otherworldly Adventures [e-novellas]
Night Trilogy
Legacy series
The Magic Trilogy
Single novels
Georgian
Victorian/Early San Francisco
Medieval
Viking series
Contemporary romance
Contemporary romantic thrillers
FBI Thrillers
A Brit in the FBI
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000007990,00.html|title=Coulter profile|publisher=Penguin Group|accessdate=2006-11-09}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/authormonth/0207coulter/coulter-catherine.asp|title=Authors on the Web - Catherine R. Coulter|publisher=Authors on the Web.com|accessdate=2006-11-09|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020231725/http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/authormonth/0207coulter/coulter-catherine.asp|archivedate=2006-10-20}} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Sherwin|first=Elisabeth|title=Coulter dispenses advice like an inspirational speaker|date=1996-08-04|url=http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/coulter.html|accessdate=2007-02-06}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Gold|first=Laurie|title=Some Time with Catherine Coulter|publisher=The Romance Reader|year=1996|url=http://www.likesbooks.com/int7.html|accessdate=2007-02-06|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218154827/http://www.likesbooks.com/int7.html|archivedate=2007-02-18|df=}} 5. ^Catherine Coulter | Penguin Random House Retrieved 2016-12-15. 6. ^"The Tao of JT", December 21, 2013 External links
19 : 1942 births|Living people|American romantic fiction writers|Writers of historical romances|American historical novelists|Boston College alumni|University of Texas at Austin alumni|People from Cameron County, Texas|Novelists from Texas|Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area|People from Sausalito, California|American women novelists|Women romantic fiction writers|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American women writers|21st-century American novelists|21st-century American women writers|Women historical novelists|Novelists from California |
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