Nora Roberts is an American author renowned for her extensive bibliography of over 225 novels. She was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950. Roberts is widely recognized for her romance novels published under her own name, but she also explores different genres, writing police procedurals intertwined with science fiction elements under the pseudonym J.D. Robb. Additionally, she has published works as Jill March and, in the United Kingdom, as Sarah Hardesty.

Among her successful series is the In Death series, which she initially planned to publish under the pseudonym D. J. MacGregor, but later changed it to avoid confusion with another author. Roberts holds the distinction of being the first author inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.