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Mary Balogh

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Born: March 23 1944

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Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling.

Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Mary Balogh

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Books from Mary Balogh

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Married

Slightly Wicked

Slightly Scandalous

First Comes Marriage

A Summer to Remember

The Proposal

The Arrangement

More Than a Mistress

Someone to Love

The Secret Pearl

No Man's Mistress

Someone to Trust

The Temporary Wife

Someone to Care (Westcott, #4)

Someone to Romance

Web of Love

Someone to Hold

The Arrangement

Someone to Care (Westcott #4)