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Sandra Brown Bio
Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-eight New York Times bestsellers, including Sting, Mean Streak, Friction, Mean Streak, Deadline, Low Pressure, Lethal, and Rainwater.
Sandra Brown was born on March 12, 1948 in Waco, Texas, U.S. She was raised and educated in Forth Worth, majoring in English at the Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth.
Sandra Brown began her writing career in 1981 after her husband dared her to. After selling her first book, she wrote a succession of romance novels under several pseudonyms (Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire), most of which remain in print.
Prior to writing, she worked in commercial television as an on-air personality for PM Magazine and local news in Dallas.
Brown has published over seventy-five novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Her episode on truTV's "Murder by the Book" premiered the series in 2008. She appeared in 2010 on Investigation Discovery's series, "Hardcover Mysteries". Television movies have been made of her novels French Silk, Smoke Screen, and Ricochet.
Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University, where she and her husband Michael Brown, have instituted the ELF, a scholarship awarded annually.
She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer's Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011 she went on a USO tour to Afghanistan.
"It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally."
~ Sandra Brown