83-610: Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 romance novels. She also writes as J. D. Robb , Jill March , and (in the U.K.) Sarah Hardesty . Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland , the youngest of five children. Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through". Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Although she had always made up stories in her head, Roberts did not write as
166-401: A mica -flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair , who subsequently bought much of the area's surrounding land. Acorn Park , south of downtown, is believed to be the site of the original spring. As an unincorporated census-designated place , Silver Spring's boundaries are not consistently defined. As of the 2010 census , the U.S. Census Bureau gives Silver Spring
249-573: A 20-room mansion he dubbed "Silver Spring" on a 250-acre (1 km ) country homestead. In 1854, Blair moved to the mansion permanently. The house stood until 1954. By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair , who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln and represented Dred Scott before the U.S. Supreme Court , built the Falkland house in the area. By the end of the decade, Elizabeth Blair married Samuel Phillips Lee , third cousin of future Confederate leader Robert E. Lee , and gave birth to
332-485: A 2002 PBS documentary entitled Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb . In 2003, Discovery Communications moved its headquarters from nearby Bethesda to a new building in downtown Silver Spring. In 2017, Discovery, Inc. CEO David Zaslav announced that the company was relocating to New York City to operate close to their "ad partners on Madison Avenue ", "investors and analysts on Wall Street ", and their "creative and production community". ) 2003 also brought
415-583: A boy, Francis Preston Blair Lee , who went on to become the first popularly elected Senator in U.S. history. During the American Civil War , Abraham Lincoln visited the Silver Spring mansion several times, where he relaxed by playing town ball with Francis P. Blair's grandchildren. In 1864, Confederate States Army General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring before the Battle of Fort Stevens . After
498-719: A carpenter, when she hired him to build bookshelves in July 1985. Her husband owns Turn the Page Books bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland , and works as an adult content photographer and videographer. The couple also owned the nearby historic Boone Hotel. After it was destroyed by a fire in February 2008, it was restored and reopened as the Inn BoonsBoro in 2009; the suites were inspired by and named for literary romantic couples with happy endings. She
581-914: A child, other than essays for school. She does claim to have "told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes." She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to Montgomery Blair High School , where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. They married, against her parents' wishes, in 1968, as soon as she graduated, and settled in Boonsboro. Roberts' husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. She gave birth to two sons, Dan and Jason. Roberts would later refer to this time period as her "Earth Mother" years, when she did crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. The couple divorced in 1983. Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder,
664-439: A different race domiciled with an owner or tenant." In practice, covenants excluding "Semitic races" were primarily used to discriminate against Jews, as Montgomery County did not have significant Armenian, Greek, Iranian, or Turkish populations at the time. In all, housing in more than 10 square miles of greater Silver Spring was blocked off to Blacks, Jews, Armenians, Persians, Turks, and Greeks, who were considered non-white at
747-472: A following of readers. After moving to Putnam in 1992, the publishing company quickly realized that they were unable to keep up with Roberts's prolific output. They suggested that she adopt a second pseudonym so they would be able to publish more of her work each year. Her agent, Amy Berkover, convinced the publishers to allow Roberts to write romantic suspense under the new name. She chose the pseudonym D. J. MacGregor, but right before publication, discovered it
830-542: A household in the census area was US$ 71,986 , and the median income for a family was US$ 84,136 . Prior to European settlement, present-day Silver Spring was inhabited by various Indigenous peoples for approximately 10,000 years, including the Piscataway , an Algonquian-speaking people. The Piscataway may have established a few small villages along the banks of Sligo Creek and Rock Creek . The Blair, Lee, Jalloh, and Barrie families, three politically active families of
913-446: A key incident, character, or setting. She then writes a short first draft that has the basic elements of a story. Roberts then goes back to the beginning of the novel. The second draft usually sees the addition of details, the "texture and color" of the work, as well as a more in-depth study of the characters. She then does a final pass to polish the novel before sending it to her agent, Amy Berkower. She often writes trilogies, finishing
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#1732876732306996-404: A large swath of eastern Montgomery County sometimes called "Greater Silver Spring", including Four Corners , Woodmoor , Wheaton , Glenmont , Forest Glen , Forest Glen Park , Aspen Hill , Hillandale , White Oak , Colesville , Colesville Park, Cloverly , Calverton , Briggs Chaney, Greencastle, Northwood Park, Ashton , Sandy Spring , Sunset Terrace, Fairland , Lyttonsville , Kemp Mill ,
1079-457: A lasting effect on her. At ten, she won a scholarship to Skellfield School, Ripon , Yorkshire, where she excelled at sport. Offered places by Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham universities, she chose Durham as it offered the largest bursary and least travel. She graduated from Durham University in 1938 with first-class honours in English, was awarded a first-class Teaching Diploma in English with Art
1162-463: A mid-21st century New York City. Despite the emphasis on solving a crime in each of the books, the overall theme of the series is the development of the relationship between Eve and Roarke. When the in Death series began, neither Roberts nor her publisher acknowledged that she was the author. They hoped to allow the series to stand on its own merits and build its own following. After publishing 18 novels in
1245-445: A neighborhood of 1-acre (4,000 m ) plot home sites built on the former Noyes estate in 1923. In 1924, Washington trolley service on Georgia Avenue (present-day Maryland Route 97 ) across B&O's Metropolitan Branch was suspended so that an underpass could be built. The underpass was completed two years later, but trolley service never resumed. It would be rebuilt again in 1948 with additional lanes for automobile traffic, opening
1328-666: A new publisher, Silhouette Books, formed to take advantage of the manuscripts from the American writers that Harlequin had rejected. Roberts' first novel, Irish Thoroughbred , was published in 1981, using the pseudonym Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson because she assumed that all romance authors had pen names. Between 1982 and 1984, Roberts wrote 23 novels for Silhouette, published under various Silhouette imprints: Silhouette Sensation, Silhouette Special Edition and Silhouette Desire, as well as Silhouette Intrigue, and MIRA's reissue program. In 1985, Playing
1411-453: A new, larger facility at the corner of Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29 ) and University Boulevard ( Maryland Route 193 ). The former Blair building became a combined middle school and elementary school, housing Silver Spring International Middle School and Sligo Creek Elementary School. The Silver Spring Shopping Center, built by developer Albert Small and Silver Theatre , designed by theater architect John Eberson , were completed in 1938 at
1494-400: A number of alternatives since then, including HOV lanes and high-occupancy toll lanes . At the beginning of the 21st century, downtown Silver Spring began to see the results of redevelopment. Several city blocks near City Place Mall were rebuilt to accommodate a new outdoor shopping plaza called Downtown Silver Spring. As downtown Silver Spring revived, its 160-year history was celebrated in
1577-399: A page-turning pace, and provides compelling characterization." Publishers Weekly once talked about her "wry humor and the use of different narrators, two devices that were once rarities" in the romance novel genre. Roberts had long wanted to write romantic suspense in the vein of Mary Stewart , but, at the urging of her agent, she concentrated on classic contemporary romance while she built
1660-404: A plagiarism scandal in which she eventually confessed to stealing some of Roberts' work. Roberts once stated: "You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder." She concentrates on one novel at a time, writing eight hours a day, every day, even while on vacation. Rather than begin with an outline, Roberts instead envisions
1743-647: A portion of Langley Park , and a portion of Adelphi . The area that has a Silver Spring mailing address is larger in area than any city in Maryland except Baltimore . Landmarks in the downtown area include the AFI Silver Theatre , the National Museum of Health and Medicine , a branch of The Fillmore , and the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Greater Silver Spring includes
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#17328767323061826-527: A property owned by Rozier J. Beech in the Sixteenth Street Village subdivision of Silver Spring said, "No negro, or any person or persons of whose blood or extraction or to any person of the semitic race whose blood or origin of racial description will be deemed to include Armenians, Jews, Hebrews, Persians, Syrians, Greeks and Turks, shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of
1909-473: A result of public involvement and private investment that is turning it into an arts and entertainment center". In 2005, downtown Silver Spring was awarded the silver medal of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence In 2007, the downtown Silver Spring area gained attention when an amateur photographer was prohibited from taking photographs in what appeared to be a public street. The land, leased to
1992-441: A soccer field, tennis courts, basketball courts, and a picnic area. There are similar local parks throughout the residential parts of the community. As of the 2020 census, 81,015 people lived in Silver Spring. There were 32,114 households; their average annual income was $ 83,782. 50.9% of the population was female. 33.3% of the population was White (Non-Hispanic), 28% was Black or African American alone (Non-Hispanic), 19.4% of
2075-895: A total area of 7.92 square miles (20.5 km ), which is all land; however, the CDP contains some creeks and small ponds. This definition is a 15% reduction from the 9.4 square miles (24 km ) used in previous years. Silver Spring contains the following neighborhoods: Downtown Silver Spring, East Silver Spring, Woodside , Woodside Park , Lyttonsville , North Hills Sligo Park, Long Branch, Indian Spring, Goodacre Knolls, Franklin Knolls , Montgomery Knolls, Clifton Park Village, New Hampshire Estates, and Oakview. The U.S. Geological Survey , U.S. Postal Service , Silver Spring Urban Planning District, and Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, each use their own slightly different definitions. The Postal Service in particular assigns Silver Spring mailing addresses to
2158-638: A young Scot lecturer in Geology, whilst they were both working at Durham University. They were married by her father in September 1945 after having met at a VE Day dance; their engagement was announced in The Times only one month after they met. At 30, she suffered an ectopic pregnancy , undiagnosed for several weeks, and as a consequence could not have children. In 1956, they moved to Edinburgh , where he became professor of geology and mineralogy, and later chairman of
2241-445: Is an ardent baseball fan, having been honored by the local minor league baseball team Hagerstown Suns several times. She began to write during a blizzard in February 1979. Roberts states that with three feet of snow, a dwindling supply of chocolate, and no morning kindergarten for her two boys, she had little else to do. She fell in love with the writing process, and quickly produced six manuscripts which she submitted to Harlequin ,
2324-575: Is known as the father of modern Silver Spring for his visionary attitude toward developing the region. In the early 20th century, E. Brooke Lee and his brother, Blair Lee I , founded the Lee Development Company, whose Colesville Road office building remains a downtown fixture. Dale Drive, a winding roadway, was built to provide vehicular access to much of the family's substantial real estate holdings. Suburban development continued in 1922 when Woodside Development Corporation created Woodside Park,
2407-505: The 2010 census , there were 71,452 residents, 28,603 total households, and 15,684 families residing in the Silver Spring CDP. The population density was 9,021.7 inhabitants per square mile (3,483.3/km ). There were 30,522 housing units at an average density of 3,853.8 per square mile (1,488.0/km ). The racial makeup of the community, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau , for residents who self-identified as being members of "one race"
2490-618: The 2020 census , making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore , Columbia , Germantown , and Waldorf . Downtown Silver Spring, located next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most urbanized area of Silver Spring, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway . Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004. Silver Spring takes its name from
2573-586: The American Film Institute , an annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving) for Montgomery County . The Silver Spring Jazz Festival is the largest annual event, drawing 20 000 people to the free festival held on the second Saturday in September. Featuring local jazz artists and a battle of high school bands, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has featured Wynton Marsalis , Arturo Sandoval , Sérgio Mendes , Aaron Neville ,
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2656-798: The Born In series was released in Britain it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers. In 1996, Roberts passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky and, in 2012, doubled that with The Witness . In both 1999 and 2000, four of the five novels that USA Today listed as the best-selling romance novels of the year were written by Roberts. Her first appearance on The New York Times Best Seller list came in 1991, and between 1991 and 2001, she had 68 New York Times Bestsellers, counting hardbacks and paperbacks. In 2001, Roberts had 10 best-selling mass-market paperbacks, according to Publishers Weekly , not counting those books written under
2739-484: The Literacy Volunteers of America (now ProLiteracy). Roberts joined the chorus strongly criticizing fellow romance writer Cassie Edwards , who had lifted many passages from much older sources (many in the public domain ) without giving credit, forcing Edwards out of the business. In 2019 Roberts, along with other authors, was a victim of plagiarism by Cristiane Serruya. Roberts has been included repeatedly on
2822-581: The Mingus Big Band , the Fred Wesley Group, and other jazz music artists. Mary Stewart (novelist) Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow ; 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. She also wrote children's books and poetry, but may be best known for her Merlin series , which straddles
2905-449: The in Death series, Putnam published the nineteenth, Divided in Death , first in hardcover. The book became Roberts' first bestselling novel of 2004. As of March 2022, Roberts has published 54 novels plus ten novellas in the in Death series. Roberts wrote a story for a magazine titled Melodies of Love under the pseudonym Jill March. She has also been known as Sarah Hardesty in the UK. When
2988-403: The 1950s, Silver Spring was known as a sundown town , in part because of influential land owners. The North Washington Real Estate Company designed 63 acres to be white-only , written in its deeds to prevent the sale of land to anyone else. The Fair Housing Act outlawed this practice in 1968, almost two decades after Shelley v. Kramer made racial covenants unenforceable. A 1939 deed for
3071-442: The 1980s. The Hecht Company closed its downtown location in 1987 and moved to Wheaton Plaza while forbidding another department store to rent its old spot. City Place , a multi-level mall, was established in the old Hecht Company building in 1992, but it had difficulty attracting quality anchor stores and gained a reputation as a budget mall. In the mid-1990s, developers considered building a mega-mall and entertainment complex called
3154-628: The American Dream, similar to the Mall of America , in downtown Silver Spring, but were unable to secure funding. A bright spot for the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) consolidating its headquarters to four new high-rise office buildings near the Silver Spring Metro station. A February 16, 1996, train collision on
3237-450: The American romance novel, with special emphasis on the literary qualities and significance of the romance. Several of Roberts' books have been adapted into made-for-TV movies and aired on Lifetime . The 2007 Collection featured: The 2009 Collection featured: Peter Guber 's Mandalay TV and Stephanie Germain Prods. produced the eight adaptations. Golden Medallion awards were awarded by
3320-554: The B&;O's eastbound and westbound mains. The Red Line heads south to downtown DC from Silver Spring, running at grade before descending into Union Station . By the mid-1990s, the Red Line continued north from the downtown Silver Spring core, entering a tunnel just past the Silver Spring station and running underground to three more stations: Forest Glen , Wheaton , and Glenmont . Nevertheless, Silver Spring's downtown continued to decline in
3403-783: The Civil War. These small towns largely lost their separate identities when a post office was established in Silver Spring in 1899. By the end of the 19th century, the region began to develop into a town of size and importance. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's Metropolitan Branch opened on April 30, 1873, and ran through Silver Spring from Washington, D.C., to Point of Rocks, Maryland . The first suburban development appeared in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on present-day Colesville Road ( U.S. Route 29 ) and Brookeville Road into five- and ten-acre ( 20 000 - and 40 000 m ) plots. In 1892, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee , who
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3486-600: The Geology Department at University of Edinburgh . In 1974, Mary's husband Frederick Stewart was knighted and she became Lady Stewart, although she never used the title. Her husband died in 2001. In semi-retirement Stewart resided in Edinburgh as well as near Loch Awe . An avid gardener, Mary and her husband shared a keen love of nature. She was also fond of her cat Tory, a black and white female, who lived to be eighteen. Mary Stewart died on 9 May 2014. Her entry in
3569-603: The Giving Back Fund's annual lists of the most philanthropic celebrities, with the bulk of her donations going to the Nora Roberts Foundation. The foundation financially supports organizations that promote literacy and the arts, assist children and engage in humanitarian efforts. The Foundation also endowed the Nora Roberts Center for American Romance at McDaniel College , which supports academic scholarship on
3652-472: The Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind-boggling", Roberts sued Dailey. Dailey acknowledged the plagiarism and attributed it to a psychological disorder. She admitted that both Aspen Gold and Notorious lifted heavily from Roberts' work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Dailey's admission. In April 1998, Dailey settled the case. Roberts donated the settlement to various literary causes including
3735-536: The J.D. Robb name. In September 2001, for the first time Roberts took the numbers 1 and 2 spots on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, as her romance Time and Again was number one, and her J.D. Robb release Seduction in Death was number two. Since 1999, every one of Roberts's novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and 124 of her novels have ranked on the Times bestseller list, including 29 that debuted in
3818-586: The New Hampshire Avenue interchange, with a speech by Gov. J. Millard Tawes , who called it a "road of opportunity" for Maryland and the nation. Washington Metro rail service into Washington, D.C., helped breathe new life into the region starting with the 1978 opening of Silver Spring station . The Metro Red Line followed the right-of-way of the B&;O Metropolitan Branch , with the Metro tracks centered between
3901-600: The Odds, the first novel in the MacGregor family series, was published and was an immediate bestseller. In 1987, she began writing single title books for Bantam. Five years later she moved to Putnam to write single title hardcovers and original paperbacks, reaching the hardcover bestseller lists with her fourth hardcover release, 1996's Montana Sky . Roberts has continued to release single-title novels in paperback. She still occasionally writes shorter category romances. Her attachment to
3984-750: The Peterson Companies, a developer, for $ 1, was technically private property. The citizens argued that the Downtown Silver Spring development, partially built with public money, was still public property. After a protest on July 4, 2007, Peterson relented and allowed photography on their property under limited conditions. Peterson also claimed that it could revoke these rights at any time. The company further stated that other activities permitted in public spaces, such as organizing protests or distributing campaign literature, were still prohibited. In response, Montgomery County Attorney Leon Rodriguez said that
4067-566: The Rings (published in full 1956), and as a consequence Arthurian and heroic legends regained popularity among a critical mass of readers. Mary Stewart added to this climate by publishing The Crystal Cave (1970), the first in what was to become The Merlin Trilogy , later extended by two further novels. The books placed Stewart on the best-seller list many times throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Mary Rainbow met and married her husband, Frederick Stewart ,
4150-533: The Romance Writers of America. RITA Awards are awarded by the Romance Writers of America. Quill Awards are awarded by the Quills Foundation. Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland , United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated , it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at
4233-602: The Silver Spring section of the Metropolitan line left 11 people dead. A MARC commuter train bound for Washington Union Station during the Friday evening rush hour collided with the Amtrak Capitol Limited train and erupted in flames on a snow-swept stretch of track. The Maryland State Highway Administration started studies of improvements to the Capital Beltway in 1993, and have continued, off and on, examining
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#17328767323064316-532: The United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.9%. Of these, the most predominant foreign-born people are from El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, and China. Note: For the 2010 census, the boundaries of the Silver Spring CDP were changed, reducing the land area by approx. 15%. As a result, the population count for 2010 shows a 6.6% decrease, while the population density increased 11%. As of
4399-418: The areas to the north for readily accessible suburban development. Takoma-Silver Spring High School, built in 1924, was the first high school for Silver Spring. The community's rapid growth led to the need for a larger school. In 1935, when a new high school building was erected at Wayne Avenue and Sligo Creek Parkway, the school was renamed Montgomery Blair High School . In 1998, the school was moved again, to
4482-526: The boundary between the historical novel and fantasy. Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 17 September 1916 in Sunderland , County Durham, England, UK, daughter of Mary Edith Matthews, a primary school teacher from New Zealand , and Frederick Albert Rainbow, a vicar. She was a bright child and attended Eden Hall boarding school in Penrith , Cumbria, age eight. She was bullied there and stated that this had
4565-499: The documentary film Next Stop: Silver Spring . In May 2019, Peterson announced a $ 10 million renovation of the Downtown Silver Spring development that will include public art and a new outdoor plaza, featuring green space. Downtown Silver Spring hosts several entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival held each June and hosted by Discovery Communications and
4648-601: The engagement, fleeing Confederate soldiers razed Montgomery Blair's Falkland residence. At the time, there was a community called Sligo located at the intersection of the Washington-Brookeville Turnpike and the Washington-Colesville-Ashton Turnpike, now named Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. Sligo included a tollhouse, a store, a post office, and a few homes. The communities of Woodside , Forest Glen , and Linden were founded after
4731-476: The following year and in 1941 gained her master's degree. Stewart held a variety of posts during World War II, including primary school teaching, teaching at secondary level at a girls' boarding school, and working part-time at the sixth form of Durham School . Between 1941 and 1956, she was an assistant lecturer (1941–5) and part-time lecturer (1948–56) in English literature, mostly Anglo-Saxon , at Durham University. She received an honorary D.Litt. in 2009. It
4814-597: The headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church , the Food and Drug Administration , and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the U.S. Four major creeks run through Silver Spring: from west to east, they are Rock Creek , Sligo Creek , Long Branch, and Northwest Branch . Each is surrounded by parks offering hiking trails, playgrounds, picnic areas, and tennis courts. On weekends, roads are closed in
4897-462: The leading publisher of romance novels , but was repeatedly rejected. Roberts says, I got the standard rejection for the first couple of tries, then my favorite rejection of all time. I received my manuscript back with a nice little note which said that my work showed promise, and the story had been very entertaining and well done. But that they already had their American writer. That would have been Janet Dailey . Dailey would go on to be embroiled in
4980-481: The number-one spot. As of January 24, 2013, Roberts's novels had spent a combined 948 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 148 weeks in the number-one spot. As of January 9, 2009, 400 million copies of her books are in print, including 12 million copies sold in 2005 alone. Her novels have been published in 35 countries. A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), Roberts
5063-549: The parks for bicycling and walking. Northwest Branch Park also includes the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail, named after Rachel Carson , the author of Silent Spring and a former resident of the area. It continues north to Wheaton Regional Park , in Greater Silver Spring, which is home to the 50-acre (20 ha) Brookside Gardens . The 14.5-acre (5.9 ha) Jessup Blair Park, south of downtown, has
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#17328767323065146-413: The passions of the human heart." Roberts was one of only two authors on the list, the other being David Mitchell . In 1997, another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey , admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing Roberts' work. The practice came to light after a reader read Roberts' Sweet Revenge and Dailey's Notorious back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on
5229-463: The photograph to be part of the continuum of action that leads to the display of the photograph and thus also protected by the First Amendment." The incident was part of a trend in the United States regarding the blurring of public and private spaces in developments built with both public and private funds. In 2008, construction began on the long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC), which crosses
5312-575: The population (12.3% Salvadoran , 3.71% Guatemalan , 2.83% Mexican ). Like much of the Washington metropolitan area , Silver Spring is home to many people of Ethiopian ancestry. There were 28,603 households, out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.2% were non-families. 33.6% of all households were made up of individuals living alone, and 16.5% had someone living alone who
5395-475: The population was Other (Hispanic), 7.12% of the population was Asian (Non-Hispanic), 6.68% of the population was White (Hispanic), 3.16% was Multiracial (Non-Hispanic), 1.08% was Multiracial (Hispanic), 0.47% was Black or African American (Hispanic), 0.29% was Asian (Hispanic), and 0.19% was American Indian & Alaska Native (Hispanic). 28% of the population identified as Hispanic. As of 2019, 36.5% of Silver Spring residents (29,800 people) were born outside of
5478-467: The reopening of the Silver Theatre, as AFI Silver , under the auspices of the American Film Institute . Beginning in 2004, the downtown redevelopment was marketed locally with the "silver sprung" advertising campaign, which declared on buses and in print ads that Silver Spring had "sprung" and was ready for business. In June 2007, The New York Times noted that downtown was "enjoying a renaissance,
5561-416: The request of developer William Alexander Julian . The Silver Spring Shopping Center was one of the nation's first retail spaces with a street-front parking lot, defying conventional wisdom that merchandise should be in windows closest to the street so that people could see it. The shopping center was purchased in 1944 by real estate developer Sam Eig , who helped attract large retailers to the city. Before
5644-535: The shorter category books stems from her years as a young mother of two boys without much time to read, as she "[remembers] exactly what it felt like to want to read and not have time to read 200,000 words." Roberts was featured in Pamela Regis' A Natural History of the Romance Novel. Regis calls Roberts "a master of the romance novel form", because she "has a keen ear for dialogue, constructs deft scenes, maintains
5727-466: The street in question, Ellsworth Drive, "constitutes a public forum" and that the First Amendment 's protection of free speech applies there. In an eight-page letter, Rodriguez wrote, "Although the courts have not definitively resolved the issue of whether the taking, as opposed to the display, of photographs is a protected expressive act, we think it is likely that a court would consider the taking of
5810-419: The three books in a row so that she can remain with the same characters. In the past, her trilogies were all released in paperback, as Roberts believed the wait for hardcover editions was too long for the reader. All her new publications are released in hardcover first and e-book, with paperback editions following. Roberts does much of her research over the Internet, as she has an aversion to flying . In 1980,
5893-415: The time, are tied to Silver Spring's history. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair , who later helped organize the modern Republican Party , along with his daughter, Elizabeth, discovered a spring flowing with chips of mica believed to be the now-dry spring visible at Acorn Park . Blair was looking for a site for his summer home to escape the summer heat of Washington, D.C. Two years later, Blair completed
5976-584: The time. By the 1950s, Silver Spring was the second-busiest retail market between Baltimore and Richmond ; major retailers included the Hecht Company , J.C. Penney , and Sears, Roebuck and Company . In 1954, the 1842 Blair mansion "Silver Spring" was razed and replaced with the Blair Station post office. 1960 saw the opening of Wheaton Plaza, later called Westfield Wheaton , a shopping center several miles north of downtown Silver Spring. It captured much of
6059-406: The town's business, and the downtown area began a long period of decline. On December 19, 1961, a two-mile (3.2 km) segment of the Capital Beltway (I-495) was opened to traffic between Georgia Avenue (MD 97) and University Boulevard East (MD 193) . On August 17, 1964, the final segment of the 64-mile (103 km) Beltway was opened to traffic, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held near
6142-404: The two genres, maintaining a full mystery while focusing on the courtship between two people, so that the process of solving the mystery "helps to illuminate" the hero's personality—thereby helping the heroine to fall in love with him. In the late 1960s a new generation of young readers revived a readership in T. H. White 's The Once and Future King (published in full 1958) and The Lord of
6225-497: The upper reaches of Silver Spring. The highway's first section opened on February 21, 2011; the entire route was completed by 2012. In July 2010, the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza opened in downtown Silver Spring. Between 2015 and 2016, the long-struggling City Place Mall was renovated and reopened as Ellsworth Place The old B&O Passenger Station was restored between 2000 and 2002, as recorded in
6308-501: Was 45.7% White (7.8% German , 7.0% Irish , 5.7% English ), 27.8% Black or African American (5.2% Ethiopian , 1.1% Haitian ), 0.6% American Indian and Alaska Native , 7.9% Asian (2.35% Indian , 1.74% Vietnamese , 1.32% Chinese , 0.63% Korean ), 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander , and 13.2% "Some Other Race" (SOR). 4.8% of the CDP's residents self-identified as being members of two or more races . Hispanic or Latino residents "of any race" comprised 26.3% of
6391-461: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.21. In the census area, the population was spread out, with 21.4% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 37.1% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males. The median income for
6474-562: Was an immediate success, followed by many other successful works over the years. Stewart was the best-selling author of many romantic suspense and historical fiction novels. They were well received by critics, due especially to her skillful story-telling and elegant prose. Her novels are also known for their well-crafted settings, many in England but also in such locations as Damascus and the Greek islands , as well as Spain, France, Austria, etc. She
6557-532: Was at the height of her popularity from the late 1950s to the 1980s, when many of her novels were translated into other languages. The Moon-Spinners , one of her most popular novels, was also made into a Walt Disney live-action movie . Stewart was one of the most prominent writers of the romantic suspense subgenre, blending romance novels and mystery. Critically, her works are considered superior to those of other acclaimed romantic suspense novelists, such as Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney . She seamlessly combined
6640-459: Was in Durham that she met and married her husband, Frederick Stewart , a young Scot who lectured in Geology. She became known as Mary Stewart. In 1956, the couple moved to Edinburgh . Mary, in her own words, was a "born storyteller" and had been writing stories since the age of three. Following the move to Scotland, she submitted a novel to the publishers Hodder & Stoughton. Madam, Will You Talk?
6723-455: Was in use by another author. Instead, her first romantic suspense novel was published in 1995 under the pseudonym J. D. Robb. The initials "J. D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts. As J. D. Robb, Roberts has published a series of futuristic science fiction police procedurals . These books, all part of the in Death series, feature detective Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke and are set in
6806-878: Was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. In 1997 she was awarded the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, which in 2008 was renamed the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2012, she has won an unprecedented 21 of the RWA's RITA Awards , the highest honor given in the romance genre. Two of Roberts' novels, Sanctuary and Magic Moments , had previously been made into TV movies. In 2007, Lifetime Television adapted four Nora Roberts novels into TV movies: Angels Fall starring Heather Locklear , Montana Sky starring Ashley Williams , Blue Smoke starring Alicia Witt , and Carolina Moon starring Claire Forlani . This
6889-599: Was the first time that Lifetime had adapted multiple works by the same author. Four more films were released on four consecutive Saturdays in March and April 2009. The 2009 collection included Northern Lights starring LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian , Midnight Bayou starring Jerry O'Connell , High Noon starring Emilie de Ravin , and Tribute starring Brittany Murphy . TIME named Roberts one of their 100 Most Influential People in 2007, saying she "has inspected, dissected, deconstructed, explored, explained and extolled
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