"Which romantic novelist's first book was ""Jigsaw"", published in 1921?"
Jean S. MacLeod documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She was the first author published in the Mills & Boon Romance Series. In 2009, at 101, MacLeod was interviewed by a Daily Mail reporter, while she was starting her 130th book for Mills & Boon. MacLeod was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly. Jean S. MacLeod Jean S. MacLeod (20 January 1908 – 11 April 2011) was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also
Dawn Atkins (romantic novelist) Dawn Atkins (romantic novelist) Dawn Atkins is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Dawn Atkins has been writing since childhood. In the early 1980s she sold the first of her work, several romance short stories which were published by "True Love" magazine. She then wrote her first romance novel, which was rejected by publishers. For the next 13 years, Atkins did not write. She filled her time teaching second and third graders. Eventually she began rewriting her first novel, which was rejected by several agents in its new form. Atkins kept writing, and her third completed manuscript was published