Patricia Robins (February 1, 1921)

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Patricia Robins (born 1 February 1921 in Sussex, England) is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.

Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the also writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960-1966). Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.

Born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Sussex, England. She is the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange. She has two sisters Anne and Eve.

Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12, she published her first children's novellas. She worked with a woman's magazine editorial team and published more children's novellas, she went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1960's she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer.

Patricia lives in rural Kent, she has three children and eight grandchildren. She has travelled extensively around the world but has made her home in a four hundred year-old, oak beamed cottage. She enjoys such outdoor activities as gardening, tennis, ski-ing and golf. Her other interests include reading, travel, meeting people and entertaining.

Patricia Robins's Books on Amazon: Patricia Robins

Claire Lorrimer's Books on Amazon: Claire Lorrimer

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Robins