April Kihlstrom

April Kihlstrom è una scrittrice di genere americana specializzata in romanzi rosa regency. Kihlstrom si è laureato alla Purdue University e ha conseguito un master in ricerca operativa presso la Cornell University. She was a graduate student in math at Cornell University when she married and followed her husband, Joseph Gerver (a fellow mathematician best known for his work on the moving sofa problem) to Paris where he had accepted a one-year academic appointment. Ha scritto il suo primo romanzo, un romanzo contemporaneo intitolato Paris Summer, durante il loro anno in Francia. It was published in 1977 by Thomas Bouregy & Co. in 1977. She published two more romance novels with contemporary settings before switching to novels set during the English Regency era. She wrote a series of murder-mystery set in the Regency period with a recurring secondary character, the governess, Miss Tibbles, that enabled her to explore the limited choices available to women in the early 1800s, although, as the series became popular, Miss Tibbles became the lead character and found a traditional happy ending by marrying in middle age. Maelstrom e Gerver hanno due figli, uno dei quali ha la sindrome di Down. this led her to take the unusual step of including characters with Down syndrome in her novels, beginning with a romance entitled Twice Betrothed. She was among the earliest genre novelists to include plots dealing with incest (Mysterious Governess,) child abuse (Wary Spinster,) and abuse by a spouse (Counterfeit Betrayal). Khilstom's regency novels, first published in a period when this genre of historical romances with no explicit sex, was wildly popular continue to sell in reprinted and e-book editions. == Riferimenti == == Collegamenti esterni == April Kihlstrom