Barbara Delinsky
Author of Family Tree
About the Author
Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her show more first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Barbara Delinsky
Forever Yours (Threats and Promises / The Aristocrat / Loving Evangeline) (1997) — Contributor — 35 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 232 - Die Insel der Schatzgräber. Rückkehr nach Monterey. Eifel-Jagd. Miss Julia haut… (2000) 3 copies
Livros Condensados: Perigo Biológico | O Verão da Minha Ousadia | O Pianista | Que Natal! (2005) — Author — 2 copies
sa Delinski, Barbara 2 copies
More than Friends | The Woman Next Door | Looking for Peyton Place | Flirting with Pete (2007) 2 copies
Up all night 1 copy
THREE COMPLETE NOVELS 1 copy
Not My Daughter [abridged] 1 copy
A Woman's Place [abridged] 1 copy
For Bitter or Worse 1 copy
Eve's Christmas 1 copy
Evadarea (Romansh Edition) 1 copy
First Seat ..... 01/04 1 copy
Moment of Respect 10/06 1 copy
Bestseller Selectie 3 1 copy
LA FILLE D'A COTÉ 1 copy
Associated Works
With This Ring (Say It With Flowers / Father of the Bride / Menu for a Wedding / Marry-Go-Round) (1991) — Contributor — 24 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: 10lb Penalty • A Woman's Place • Flood Tide • The Ghosts of the Eight Attack (1998) — Contributor — 8 copies
Livros Condensados: Nas Areias de Saqqara | Estrada Costeira | Segundo Fôlego | Um Momento Inesquecível (2000) — Author — 6 copies
Livros Condensados: Corrida de Obstáculos | Um Lugar no Coração | A Bomba do Kremlin | Três Desejos (1999) — Author — 4 copies
Australian Reader's Digest Select Editions: Tripwire / Thunderhead / Lake News / Flight of Eagles (2000) 4 copies
Livros Condensados: Contagem Decrescente | Corações Em Silêncio | Explosão de Cristal | Notícias do Lago (2001) — Author — 3 copies
Det Bästas Bokval (1999) vol 204 : Den tredje tvillingen; Kvinnans plats; Toxin; Amy och vildgässen — Author — 2 copies
Livros Condensados: Nem uma Palavra | A Vizinha do Lado | Sanção Secreta | O Observatório (2003) 2 copies
Det Bästas Bokval (2002) vol 223: Bränd; Kvinnan i huset intill; Viskande vind; Viskar ditt namn — Author — 1 copy
Válogatott könyvek 7. James Thayer - Fehér csillag; Barbara Delinsky - Egy asszony helye; John Gilstrap - Nathan… (1998) — Author — 1 copy
Livros Condensados: Céu de sangue | A mulher da casa ao lado | Prova de intenção | Estação Waterloo (2004) 1 copy
Livros Condensados: O voo das águias | A Estrada do mar | Noite longa | Julie e Romeo (2001) — Author — 1 copy
Wer seinem Herzen folgt: 1.Nur wer Liebe lebt 2.Süß ist der Rausch der Sinnlichkeit 3.Morgen heiratet mein Mann 4.Im… (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Airframe / A Woman's Place / The Unlikely Spy / The Notebook — Author — 1 copy
Kirjavaliot - Tokion varjot, Kuikan huuto, Minä en pelkää, Keskellä kylmää talvea (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy
Kirjavaliot - Suden läheisyys / Kuu paistaa haudallesi / Kirottu kuilu / Kolme toivomusta (1999) 1 copy
Reader's Digest Książki Wybrane: Sąsiadka / Szepczący Wiatr / Kryptonim Kawki / Płonące Echo (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Delinsky, Barbara Ruth Greenberg
- Other names
- Drake, Bonnie
Douglass, Billie - Birthdate
- 1945-08-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Needham, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Tufts University (BA | psychology)
Boston College (MA | sociology) - Occupations
- writer
novelist
photographer
reporter
author - Organizations
- Belmont Herald
- Awards and honors
- Romantic Times Career Achievement Award (Women's Fiction, 2006)
- Short biography
- Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945, in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where she was raised in a family of lawyers. Her mother died of breast cancer, when she was eight, it was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. She took piano lessons and flute lessons. She took ballroom dancing lessons. She went to summer camp through her fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of her stories), then spent her sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served her better than all of her other high school courses combined). In 1967, she earned a B.A. in psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology at Boston College in 1969. Following graduate school, she was a researcher for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After the birth of her first child, Andrew, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald newspaper, and later for the Boston Herald. She also filled her time doing volunteer work at hospitals, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and their Women's Cancer Advisory Board. Barbara's career in writing began in 1980, after having a pair of twins, Eric and Jeremy, when she read a newspaper article about romance fiction. She researched the field, read 40 to 50 category romances and sat down to begin her own. She found that her background in psychology was helpful in "planning the emotional entanglements of (her) characters," and claims that she has "pulled on virtually every aspect of (her) background and of (her) life experience in general (in her writing)." Barbara Delinsky is nothing if not prolific. Since 1980, she has written well over 80 novels, and shows no sign of slowing down. She began signing her novels as Billie Douglass and as Bonnie Drake, now she signs her novels with her married name: Barbara Delinsky. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into over a dozen foreign languages. From Romantic Times Magazine, she's received the Special Achievement Award (twice), the Reviewer's Choice Award and the Best Contemporary Romance Award. She's also received the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion and Golden Leaf awards. In 1994, Barbara was diagnosed breast cancer, like her mother. But it had surgery and treatment. And in 2001 she published the non-fiction Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. Now, the Delinsky family resides in Needham, Massachusetts, where Barbara's husband is a prominent local lawyer.
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