“There were never any characters that looked like me or my sisters or my girlfriends…Our stories needed to be told.”

—  Beverly Jenkins

On becoming an unknowing pioneer in the romance genre in “Interviews: Beverly Jenkins” https://bookpage.com/interviews/19354-beverly-jenkins-romance#.XflqF-lKjcs in BookPage (Feb 2016)

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American author of historical and contemporary romance nove… 1951

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