Roberts was innate inside Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five kids. Her education involved the few instance at a Catholic school. She married young, & sleep in Keedysville, Maryland. Awhile she worked as a legal secretary, however began to stay home when a birth of her sons.

She began writing when you took the blizzard within 1979, & her number 1 novel, Irish Thoroughbred, appeared around 1981, published by Silhouette. She met her 2nd hubby, Bruce Wilder, while she hired him to build bookshelves. It were married within July 1985.

Under a pseudonym "J.D. Robb", Roberts also writes the "In Death" series of science fiction police procedurals. It feature NYPSD Detective Eve Dallas & her husband Roarke and come placed within the mid-21st century New York City. A initials "J.D." were taken from either her sons, Jason & Dan, spell "Robb" occurs as shortened form of Roberts.

Roberts is famously prolific, by using when several when sevener recently novels freed around a year; inside a community of romance authors she is for instance jokingly known as "The Nora". She has stated that her amazing bibliography is partly due to the fact that she systematically writes eight hours by the day, possibly whilst in vacation.