Marie Joseph

Marie Joseph
Born Lancashire, England, UK
Pen name Marie Joseph
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality British
Period 1960sā€“1992
Genre Romance
Notable awards RoNA Award
Spouse yes
Children 2

Marie Joseph (b. Lancashire, England) was a British writer of short-stories in magazines, 16 romance novels and a book about her arthritis. In 1987, her novel A Better World Than won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]

Biography

Personal life

Marie Joseph was born in Lancashire, England, UK, and was educated at Blackburn High School for Girls. She was in the Civil Service, before her marriage with a chartered Engineer. They had two daughters, now married, and eight grandchildren. She lived in Middlesex with her retired husband. [2]

Career

Marie Joseph started to write at the age of 40, and she managed to publish in journals during the 1960s and 1970s, the stories are reedited in collection in the 1990s. She published her first long romance novel in 1975. In 1976, she wrote a book about her life with arthritis. She continued publishing romance novels until 1992.

Bibliography

Single novels

Daisy's World

  1. A Better World Than This (1986)
  2. A World Apart (1988)

Collections of short stories

Non-fiction

References and sources

  1. ā†‘ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 3 October 2012
  2. ā†‘ Mandy Hicken; Raymond John Prytherch (1994), Now Read On... A guide to contemporary popular fiction, Scolar Press, p. 442


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