Kathleen erin hogg woodiwiss shanna5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She longed to write, but needed a typewriter to buy one would give the game away to her husband, and so, when back in Kansas, she cannily presented him at Christmas with a typewriter for the poetry that he wanted to write. There she found part-time work as a fashion model. They eloped and married he was posted to Japan a year after their son's birth. A keen reader of romances, who also relished Jane Eyre and Gone With the Wind, she was more than ready at 16 to fall for a handsome lieutenant, Ross Woodiwiss, at a dance. Born Kathleen Erin Hogg in Alexandria, Louisiana, she was one of a close-knit family of eight strong-willed children. Her own life had had the kind of plot she came to write about. They prompted readers to say things like "I own eight of her works and I never tire of reading them over and over again" and "we named our dog Lord Saxton" (after one of her characters). These were romances that provided the sexy element previously discreetly hidden behind four-poster curtains. Such a passage, from Forever in Your Embrace (1992), could have appeared in any of the 14 novels she wrote, which in all sold more than 30m copies. ![]()
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