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Rita Clay
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Rita Clay was born on 31 July 1941 in Michigan, USA. Her mother, Rita Gallagher, was a former Miss Michigan, a romance novelist and a noted writing instructor, while her father was a pilot with the U.S. Air Force. She spent much of her early years living in Europe. She married her high school sweetheart when she was very young and stayed at home to raise their four children. Today, she is divorced.
On 1977, she started to write and on 1981, she published her first novel to Silhouette, she used her maiden name, Rita Clay. In 1982, she moved to Dell to write for their Candlelight Ecstasy line. Harlequin owned her pen name, so she wrote as Tira Lacy, an anagram of Rita Clay. In 1985 she resigned with Harlequin and asked to use her full name, Rita Clay Estrada, on all future books. Her novels have been translated in 23 languages. She, her mother, and 35 other authors, decided that an association was needed to defend their published members. They founded the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A), that years later persuaded Harlequin books to register copyrights for authors' works and to allow writers to own their own pseudonyms. Previously, the authors were forced to leave their pseudonym behind if they switched publishing houses, making it more difficult fortheir fans to follow. R.W.A. signature award, the RITA, which is the highest award of excellence given in the genre of romantic fiction, is named after her. The R.W.A. also awarded Estrada their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
Full Series List in Order
Related Books
1 - Wise Folly (Jun-1982)2 - Recapture The Love (Feb-1984)
Book List in Order: 7 titles
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Wanderer's Dream
- Aug-1981
- / Contemporary Romance
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SHE HAD WON THE PRIZE -- AND LOST HER HEART. When Danee Hathaway won a trip to Acapulco, she thought all her dreams had come true. What could be better than cloudless skies and beaches of soft, white sand? Then she met Travis.Cameron. This hand...
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Wise Folly
- Jun-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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HE WAS HER SECRET SHAME..... And now Noah Weston would pay for a passionate indiscretion committed seven years ago. As the newest employee of Noah's firm, Dianna Hammond planned to collect a long-overdue debt...even as she tried to avoid The Boss ...
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Sweet Eternity
- Oct-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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DREAMS OF FOREVER... What had gotten into her? Brenna Gallagher had been all ready to build a quiet, domestic future with her fiance, Lee, when handsome golf pro Marc Lawter walked into her life -- determined to change it. Forceful, arrogant an...
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Yesterday's Dreams
- Dec-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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SWEET REVENGE He said his name was "Mr. Lawrence," but Candra Bishop soon discovered the truth. The mystery man who had saved her from bankruptcy was the childhood idol she'd driven away. Josh was rich now. The tables had turned. But the years apa...
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Experiment in Love
- Feb-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LEAD STORY: LOVE Fiercely independent Victoria Brown was hoping to land herself a job at a prestigious L.A. paper when she met wealthy and handsome Kurt Morgan. She was immediately attracted to him, and her plans began to c...
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Summer Song
- Aug-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WANTED A BABY . . . but she didn't want a husband, and Caro thought she had the ideal solution. With the help of her doctor and her lawyer, she would get the family she had always wanted. J.T. Cole had different ideas, however. He was perfect...
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Recapture The Love
- Feb-1984
- / Contemporary Romance
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COULD SHE TRY AGAIN? For Jessie Young the world had ended with the death of her son, and even the love of her husband, Philip, could not console her. She left Philip in order to heal her wounds in private and build a life of her own, but her ni...