Laura Abbot

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Laura Abbot Schoffner

Born date of birth unknown
Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.A.
Pen name Laura Abbot
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Writing period 1995 - present
Genres romance

Laura Abbot Schoffner (born in Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.), is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels as Laura Abbot (her maiden name), primarily in the Harlequin Superromance line.

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[edit] Biography

Laura Abbot was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the eldest of three children. Her parents had tried for five years to have a child, and were thrilled when their daughter finally arrived, albeit during the Great Depression.[1] Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas,[2] Abbot, a tomboy, spent a great deal of time with her grandmother, who expected her to change her behavior and become ladylike.[1]

Abbot found college liberating, and worked hard to graduate in only three years. She became a teacher, and, for over twenty-five years taught eighth-and ninth-grade English. Abbot married a year after her college graduation with Mr. Schoffner, and had three children in the next ten years, before she and her husband divorced. She has since remarried, to a man with a daughter and custody of his orphaned nephew. Together they raised their combined five children, and now have thirteen grandchildren.[1]

After Abbot retired from teaching, she began to write. She sold her first romance novel to Harlequin Enterprises in 1995. Harlequin has since published over a dozen of her novels, mainly in the SuperRomance category.[1] Her novel, My Name is Nell was nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine award for Best Harlequin SuperRomance in 2003.[3]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Single Novels

  • Mating for Life 1995/Mar
  • This Christmas 1996/Nov
  • Where There's Smoke... 1997/Jun
  • Class Act 1998/08
  • The Wedding Vow 1998/Dec
  • Trial Courtship 1999/May
  • Homecoming 2000/Sep
  • A Country Practice 2001/Feb
  • You're My Baby 2002/Apr
  • A Summer Place 2002/Dec
  • My Name is Nell 2003/Oct
  • The Wrong Man 2004/Mar
  • Second Honeymoon 2005/Sep

[edit] Antologies in collaboration

  • Baby in the House / My Name is Nell 2004/Jan (with Pamela Bauer)
  • Sanctuary 2004/Jan (with Pamela Bauer, Judith Bowen, K.N. Casper, Brenda Novak and Caron Todd)
  • Wrong Man / Daddy Quest 2004/May (with Lori Handeland)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Laura Abbot. eHarlequin.Com. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
  2. ^ Laura Abbot. Harlequin Superromance Authors (2005). Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
  3. ^ Romantic Times 2003 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominees. Romantic Times Magazine (2003). Retrieved on 2007-04-10.

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