Luanne Rice
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| Born: | September 25, 1955 New Britain, Connecticut (USA)  |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Nationality: | American |
| Writing period: | 1985 - Present |
| Genres: | Romance, Suspense |
| Debut works: | Angels all over town |
| Website: | http://www.LuanneRice.com |
Luanne Rice (b. September 25, 1955 in New Britain, Connecticut) is an American bestselling writer. She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut and lived for two years in Paris, France. She has a large, extended Irish-American family.
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[edit] Biography
Luanne Rice was born September 25, 1955 in New Britain, Connecticut. The daughter of a teacher and a typewriter man, she is the oldest of three sisters.
Rice's first poem was published in 1966, in the Hartford Courant. Starting in 1970, her short stories began to be published in Ascent, the Massachusetts Review, American Girl, and Redbook. She attended Connecticut College, but dropped out to write. To support her writing, she worked as a maid in Newport, Rhode Island; a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC; and a whale researcher and deckhand in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. [1] In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college's Special Collections Library. [2]
Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels, most recently The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, Summer of Roses, Summer's Child, Silver Bells, Beach Girls and Dance With Me. Most of her novels deal with love and family [3], [4], and many are set in the fictional town of Hubbard's Point, Connecticut. An environmentalist, she often writes about nature and the sea. [5]
She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut and lived for two years in Paris, France. She has a large, extended Irish-American family.
Several of her novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love 1992; Blue Moon 1999; Follow the Stars Home 2001 (Hallmark Hall of Fame)[6]; Beach Girls 2005 (Lifetime mini-series); Silver Bells 2005 (Hallmark Hall of Fame.)[7] Her movies have starred Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Bill Pullman, Gena Rowlands, Blair Brown, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Eric Close, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Anne Heche, Tate Donovan, Sharon Lawrence, Richard Kiley, and Kim Hunter. [8]
[edit] Bibliography
Sorted by publication
- Angels All Over Town - 1985 (ISBN 9780689116162)
- Crazy in Love - 1988 (ISBN 9780670821310)
- Stone Heart - 1990 (ISBN 9780670832675)
- Secrets of Paris - 1991 (ISBN 9780670827732)
- Blue Moon - 1993 (ISBN 9780670843015)
- Home Fires - 1995 (ISBN 9780553097283)
- Cloud Nine - 1999 (ISBN 978-0553110630)
- Follow the Stars Home - 2000 (ISBN 9780553110739)
- Dream Country - 2001 (ISBN 9780553801194)
- Firefly Beach - 2001 (ISBN 0739414771)
- Summer Light - 2001 (ISBN 9780553801224)
- Safe Harbor - 2002 (ISBN 978-0553802184)
- True Blue - 2002 (ISBN 9780553588293)
- The Perfect Summer - 2003 (ISBN 9780553897746)
- The Secret Hour - 2003 (ISBN 9780553802245)
- Beach Girls - 2004 (ISBN 0553587242)
- Dance With Me - 2004 (ISBN 9780553802276)
- Silver Bells - 2004 (ISBN 9780553804119)
- Summer of Roses - 2005 (ISBN 9780553804102)
- Summer's Child - 2005 (ISBN 0553587625)
- Sandcastles - 2006 (ISBN 9780553804195)
- The Edge of Winter - 2007 (ISBN 9780553805277)
[edit] Series
[edit] Hubbard's Point / Black Hall Series
- Firefly Beach - 2001 (ISBN 0739414771)
- Safe Harbor - 2002 (ISBN 978-0553802184)
- True Blue - 2002 (ISBN 9780553588293)
- The Perfect Summer - 2003 (ISBN 9780553897746)
- Beach Girls - 2004 (ISBN 0553587242)
[edit] External links
- Luanne Rice Official WebsiteOfficial site
- Internet Movie Database [9]
