The First Officer

While still in school, romance author Anne Weale sold numerous short stories to a woman's magazine and became a newspaper reporter upon graduation. She published her first romance novel, Winter is Past, in 1955 and her last one, The Man from Madrid, in 2002. In between she wrote over 85 books. From 1998 to 2004, she wrote a website review column, show more Bookworm on the Net, for the U. K.'s leading book trade press magazine The Bookseller. She was a founding member of The Romantic Novelists' Association. She died on October 24, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) show less