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Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance published under her own name. She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.
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business · American author (born 1950) · novelist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · writer · businessperson · legal secretary · philanthropist · crime fiction writer · also Nora Roberts, Eleanor Marie Robertson, Jill March, Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder, J. D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty
Born 10 October 1950 · Q231356
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
The Columbian: Nora Roberts still happily defies genres
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Yahoo: Nora Roberts is happily defying genres, 250 books in
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: A Blizzard Inspired Nora Roberts to Write Her First Book. More Than 230 Followed.
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2022· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Entertainment Weekly: Nora Roberts defends Alyssa Milano's casting in adaptation of Brazen Virtue
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Roberts, along with other authors, was a victim of plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,688 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,807 times.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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Published “Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks” in Nature Protocols — cited 10,981 times.
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (2009).
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Published “Metal–organic framework materials as catalysts” in Chemical Society Reviews — cited 7,729 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Lifetime Television adapted four Nora Roberts novels into TV movies: Angels Fall starring Heather Locklear, Montana Sky starring Ashley Williams, Blue Smoke starring Alicia Witt, and Carolina Moon starring Claire Forlani
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Saying she "has inspected, dissected, deconstructed, explored, explained and extolled the passions of the human heart
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (2003).
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (2001).
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Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,210 times.
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Roberts had 10 best-selling mass-market paperbacks, according to Publishers Weekly, not counting those books written under the J
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1997· 2 entries
Was awarded the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, which in 2008 was renamed the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award
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Another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey, admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing Roberts' work
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (1996).
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Roberts passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky and, in 2012, doubled that with The Witness
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1993).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (1992).
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The publishing company quickly realized that they were unable to keep up with Roberts's prolific output
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1991· 1 entry
And between 1991 and 2001, she had 68 New York Times Bestsellers, counting hardbacks and paperbacks
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (1987).
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Began writing single title books for Bantam
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded RITA Awards (1985).
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Playing the Odds, the first novel in the MacGregor family series, was published and was an immediate bestseller
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded RITA Awards (1983).
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1981· 2 entries
Published “A method for estimating the probability of adverse drug reactions” in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics — cited 9,378 times.
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Using the pseudonym Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson because she assumed that all romance authors had pen names
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1980· 1 entry
A new publisher, Silhouette Books, formed to take advantage of the manuscripts from the American writers that Harlequin had rejected
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1968· 2 entries
As soon as she graduated, and settled in Boonsboro, Maryland
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Studied at Montgomery Blair High School (1968).
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1950· 2 entries
In Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children
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Born 1950-10-10.
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