Mary Jo Putney
Mary Jo Putney
Mary Jo Putney
Mary Jo Putney (born in New York) is a best-selling American author of over twentyfive historical and contemporary romance novels. She has also published romantic
fantasy novels as M.J. Putney. Her books are known for their unusual subject matter,
including alcoholism, death, and domestic abuse.
Biography
Putney was born and raised in New York. She attended Syracuse University, earning
degrees in English literature and Industrial design.[1] She served as the art editor of The
New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California[2] before
settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980[2] to run her own freelance graphic design
business.[1]
After purchasing her first computer for her business, Putney realized that it would make
writing very easy. She began work on her first novel, a traditional Regency romance,
which sold in one week. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a threebook contract immediately.[2] In 1987 that first novel, The Diabolical Baron, was
published. Since then, she has published twenty-nine books (as of January 2007). Her
books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, USAToday,
and Publishers Weekly. [1] The vast majority of her works have been historical romance,
although she did write three contemporary romances. She has also begun writing fantasy
romance and romantic fantasy as M.J. Putney.
Putney has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award twice, for Dancing on the
Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and has been a RITA finalist nine times. She is on
the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll for bestselling authors, and has been
awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards.
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As Mary Jo Putney
Single novels
Davenport Series
1. The Diabolical Baron (1987)
2. The Rake (1998) (revised from The Rake and the Reformer (1989))
3. "Sunshine for Christmas" in A Regency Christmas II (1990)
Bride Trilogy
1. The Wild Child (1998)
2. The China Bride (2000)
3. The Bartered Bride (2002)
Silk Trilogy
1. Silk and Shadows (1991)
2. Silk and Secrets (1992)
3. Veils of Silk (1992)
Thunder and Roses (1993) (reissued in Great Britain as Fallen Angel (2009))
Petals in the Storm (1993) (revised from The Controversial Countess (1989))
Dancing on the Wind (1994)
Angel Rogue (1995) (revised from The Rogue and the Runaway (1990))
Shattered Rainbows (1996)
River of Fire (1996)
One Perfect Rose (1997)
Guardian Series
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Collections
Omnibus in Collaboration
"A Dragon's Tale" in Bewitched, Bothered and BeVampyred (2005) (with Gena
Showalter, Mary Janice Davidson, Alesia Holliday, Susan Grant, Patricia Rice
and Vicki Lewis Thompson)
"The Dragon and the Dark Knight" in Dragon Lovers (2007) (with Jo Beverley,
Karen Harbaugh and Barbara Samuel)
"She Stoops to Wenchdom" in Mischief and Mistletoe (2012) (with Jo Beverley,
Patricia Rice, Nicola Cornick, Cara Elliott, Anne Gracie, and Susan King)