Yet when fate conspired for them to marry, their worlds collided with a passionate force neither had expected. Lisa lives in Washington with her husband, Gregory, and their two children. But gently bred Amanda craved respectability more than she admitted, while Jack, the cast-off son of a nobleman and Londons most notorious businessman, refused to live by societys rules. In 2015, she was given the honor of emceeing the Romance Writers of America Award Show. Her list of published books keeps growing, with her 2012 book, 'Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor' being made into the Hallmark movie, 'Christmas With Holly'. Lisa decided in 2006 to temporarily change her writing genre to contemporary romance, but she did say she plans to return to historical romance in the future. She did win a 'talented non-finalist' award for singing an original song. At only 5'2', it was a challenge to wear a banner on which was printed one of the longest state names. One non-writing achievement came when she was Miss Massachusetts in the Miss America Pageant in 1985.

She has sold millions of copies around the world, and has won many writing achievement awards over the years. Lisa has been writing full time since selling that first book at 21 years of age. She has been very successful writing for Avon Books with her representative being the prestigious William Morris Agency. After her graduation from Wellesley College in Political Science, Lisa published her first book at age 21.

Even when her and her mother's Texas homes were taken by a devastating flood, they both went to buy the necessities, and for both of them that included a romance novel. Lisa Kleypas, an American author, was born in 1964, and chose the genre of Historical Romantic Novels to begin her writing career.

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