Dorothy Garlock is one of America’s—and the world’s—favorite novelists. Her work has consistently appeared on national bestsellers lists, including the New York Times list, and there are over fifteen million copies of her books in print translated into eighteen languages. She has won more than twenty writing awards, including an RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction for A Week from Sunday, five Silver Pen Awards from Affaire de Coeur, and three Silver Certificate Awards. Her novel With Hope was chosen by Amazon as one of the best romances of the twentieth century.
After retiring as a news reporter and bookkeeper in 1978, she began her career as a novelist with the publication of Love and Cherish. She lives in Clear Lake, Iowa.