Sandra brown biography
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Sandra Brown (campaigner)
Scottish campaigner (born )
Sandra Brown,OBE[1] (born 7 January ) is a Scottish campaigner and leading expert on child protection issues. She has also achieved wide recognition as a writer, broadcaster and actress.
Biography
[edit]The daughter of Mary and Alexander Gartshore, Brown was brought up in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland.[2]
Brown was educated at Coatbridge High School, Hamilton College and the Open University which awarded her an Honours degree in and a Masters in Education in She has worked as a primary school deputy headteacher and as a senior lecturer. She now runs her own business, Potential Plus, providing personnel training for companies and organisations. She has been married to her husband, Ronnie, for many years. They live in Edinburgh and have a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.
As well as campaigning against child sexual abuse, Brown has run a helpline for victims of workplace bullying in Sc
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Brown, Sandra
Born 12 March , Waco, Texas
Also writes under: Laura Jordan, Rachel Ryan, Erin St. Claire
Daughter of Jimmie and Martha Cox; married Michael Brown,; children: Rachel, Ryan
Sandra Brown has been among the most prolific and commercially viable authors of romance and mainstream fiction throughout the s and s. Her current books contain many of the elements associated with the romance genre where she became established first, but also feature traits common to crime and political thrillers and mysteries. She is a rare example of a romance writer who has been able to make a successful transition into mainstream novels.
A native Texan, Brown was the oldest of five daughters of a father who wrote editorials for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a mother who counseled emotionally disturbed children. Brown attended Texas Christian University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Texas at Arlington, although she never graduated. She met her husband, a
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Sandra Brown
Goodreads Author
Born
in Waco, TX, The United StatesWebsite
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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Suspense, Romance
Influences
Oscar Wilde, Mary Stewart, Taylor Caldwell, Evelyn Anthonytoo many Oscar Wilde, Mary Stewart, Taylor Caldwell, Evelyn Anthonytoo many to name!more
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September
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Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including STING (), FRICTION (), MEAN STREAK (), DEADLINE(), & LOW PRESSURE (), LETHAL ().
Brown began her writing career in and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
In Brown detoured from romantic suspense to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfull