| 词条 | Rosie Thomas (writer) |
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| name = Janey Morris King | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Rosie Thomas | birth_name = Janey Morris | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Novelist | language = English | nationality = British | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1982–present | genre = Romance | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Romantic Novel of the Year (1985, 2007) | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://rosiethomasauthor.com/}} | portaldisp = }} Janey King (born 1947 in Denbigh, Wales) is a British journalist and romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas.[1] She is the author of 20 novels and ranks among the top 100 authors whose books are borrowed from United Kingdom libraries.[2] She is a two-time winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award. BiographyBorn Janey Morris, she grew up in a north Wales village.[2] Her mother died when she was ten years old.[2] She was educated at Millfield and later studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before undertaking full-time writing.[1] She drew her pseudonym from her mother's name, Rose, and her sister's married name, Thomas.[2] She has published numerous novels since 1982, with several of them becoming top ten bestsellers. Her books deal with the common themes of love and loss.[3] AwardsShe is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She won in 1985 for her third novel, Sunrise, and in 2007 for Iris and Ruby.[4] In 2012 the Romantic Novelists' Association awarded Best Epic Romance of the Year to her 2011 novel, The Kashmir Shawl.[5] PersonalThomas married her husband, a literary agent, after graduating university. They had two children.[2] After their divorce in the mid-1990s, she turned to traveling[2] and became an avid mountaineer.[2] On her 60th birthday, she climbed the Eiger in Switzerland.[2] She has also competed in the Peking to Paris car rally.[6] She lives in London.[7] BibliographyShe has written the following works:[8] Novels
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References1. ^1 {{Citation|title=Rosie Thomas at JRank|url=http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/19501/Thomas-Rosie.html|date=2012-07-10}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1315190/Why-sweaty-60s-Why-novelist-Rosie-Thomas-says-exercise-vital-older.html |title=Why we should get sweaty in our 60s: Why novelist Rosie Thomas says exercise is vital as you get older|first=Rosie |last=Thomas|date=26 September 2010|accessdate=30 December 2013|work=Daily Mail}} 3. ^{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Rosie Thomas|url=http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Authors/6539/rosie-thomas|work=Harper Collins website|date=|accessdate=2010-02-09}} 4. ^{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association |url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards |date=2012-07-10}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://forbookssake.net/2012/09/13/for-books-sake-talks-to-rosie-thomas/|title=For Books’ Sake Talks To: Rosie Thomas|first=Jess|last=Haigh|date=13 September 2012|accessdate=30 December 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|last=Wilkinson|first=Carl|title=Me and my travels: Rosie Thomas, author |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/apr/06/10 |work=The Guardian |date=2008-04-06 |accessdate=2010-02-09}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/07/fiction.gender|title='I'm just trying to write about women's lives'|first=Laura|last=Barton|date=7 May 2007|work=The Guardian|accessdate=30 December 2013}} 8. ^{{Citation|title=Rosie Thomas at FantasticFiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/rosie-thomas|date=2012-07-10}} External links
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