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The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss





The first publisher on her list, Avon, quickly purchased the novel. Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, Woodiwiss instead submitted it to paperback publishers. Her debut novel, The Flame and the Flower, was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers as being too long at 600 pages.

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

After buying her husband an electric typewriter as a Christmas present, she appropriated the machine to begin her novel in earnest. During these years, she attempted to write a novel several times, but each time stopped in frustration at the slow pace of writing in longhand. After over three years in Japan, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas and then settled in Minnesota. Her husband's military career led them to live in Japan, where she worked part-time as a fashion model for an American-owned modeling agency. She attended school locally and graduated in 1957. They married the following year, on July 20, 1956. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance.

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

I suppose that carried over into my creations of heroines who weren't weak-willed." Career Īt age 16, she met U.S. Woodiwiss would later remark that, "every single one of us had minds of our own even then I was no exception.

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Her father died suddenly when Woodiwiss was only 12, leaving her to be raised by her mother and older sisters. As a child, she relished creating her own stories, and by age six, was telling herself stories at night to help fall asleep. She was born Kathleen Erin Hogg in Alexandria, Louisiana, the youngest of eight children of Charles Wingrove Hogg, a disabled World War I veteran, and his wife, Gladys, née Coker.

The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

She pioneered the historical romance genre with the 1972 publication of her novel The Flame and the Flower. Woodiwiss (born Kathleen Erin Hogg, J– July 6, 2007) was an American novelist. Karmel Covenant Church Cemetery, Isanti County, Minnesota







The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss