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Linda Goodnight is an American author of inspirational romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction. In 2008, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance for her novel ''A Touch of Grace''. ==Biography== Goodnight grew up in Prague, Oklahoma and was an avid reader, but didn't consider writing fiction a career until her former neighbor Sharon Sala began publishing romance novels. She started writing while raising a family and working full-time as a nurse. After working as a nurse for fourteen years, Goodnight became a teacher in a small rural school in 1985. In 1995, she was named "teacher of the year" by her colleagues.〔http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/linda-goodnight〕 It was at this time that she decided to get serious about her writing and completed a novel. Twelve years later, she retired from teaching to write full-time.〔http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/linda-goodnight/news/interview-040215〕 She married her husband Gene when they were in their twenties, and he brought three children to the marriage. They went on to have three children of their own, and as they were set to retire, adopted from Ukraine in 2008 and 2009. She is also active in orphan ministry. They live outside Seminole, Oklahoma.〔〔http://www.lindagoodnight.com/#!bio/c1ktj〕〔http://www.harlequin.com/author.html?authorid=839〕〔https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/i-was-about-to-retire-before-we-adopted-a-teenager-111300143477.html〕〔http://motherhoodlater.com/posts/meet-later-mom-author-linda-goodnight/〕〔 She cites Gone With the Wind as another inspiration as she kept rewriting the ending. "Clearly, I was meant to write books with happy endings...and so I do."〔 Her first published writing appeared in an anthology called ''Prairie Brides'' in 2000 for Barbour. She was picked up by Silhouette in 2002 for her novels. In 2015, she departed from romance to women's fiction with the publication of ''The Memory House''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda Goodnight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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