Kristan Higgins

Kristan Higgins
Occupation Novelist
Nationality America
Alma mater College of the Holy Cross
Period 2006 - present
Genre Romance, contemporary
Notable awards

RITA award – Best Contemporary Single Title
2008 Catch of the Day
RITA award – Best Contemporary Single Title
2010 Too Good Too Be True

RITA award – Best Mainstream Fiction
2018 Now That You Mention It
Website
www.kristanhiggins.com

Kristan Higgins is a New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling American author of contemporary romance and women's fiction. She is a three-time winner of Romance Writers of America's RITA Award and a five-time nominee for the Kirkus Prize for Best Work of Fiction.

Biography

Higgins is from Durham, Connecticut and before writing, she worked in advertising and public relations. She lives with her firefighter husband and two children in Connecticut.[1][2] She holds a BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross.[3]


Bibliography

A Blue Heron Novel

  1. The Best Man. HQN. February 2013 [2013]. ISBN 9780373777921.
  2. The Perfect Match. HQN. October 2013 [2013]. ISBN 9780373778195.
  3. Waiting on You. HQN. March 2014 [2014]. ISBN 9780373778584.
  4. In Your Dreams. HQN. September 2014 [2014]. ISBN 9780373779314.
  5. Anything for You. HQN. December 2015 [2015]. ISBN 9780373789085.

Gideon's Cove, Maine

  1. Catch of the Day. HQN. October 2007 [2007]. ISBN 9780373772247.
  2. The Next Best Thing. HQN. January 2010 [2010]. ISBN 9780373774388.
  3. Somebody to Love. HQN. April 2012 [2012]. ISBN 9780373776580.

Cambry-on-Hudson

  1. If You Only Knew. HQN. August 2015 [2015]. ISBN 9780373784974.
  2. On Second Thought. HQN. January 2017 [2017]. ISBN 9780373789252.
  3. Good Luck with That. Berkley. August 2018 [2017]. ISBN 978-0-451-48939-5.

Stand-alone novels

  • Fools Rush In. HQN. November 2006 [2006]. ISBN 9780373771097.
  • Just One of the Guys. HQN. August 2008 [2008]. ISBN 9780373772995.
  • Too Good To Be True. HQN. February 2009 [2009]. ISBN 9780373773558.
  • All I Ever Wanted. HQN. August 2010 [2010]. ISBN 9781426864087.
  • My One and Only. HQN. March 2011 [2011]. ISBN 9780373775576.
  • Until There Was You. HQN. October 2011 [2011]. ISBN 9780373776115.
  • Now That You Mention It. HQN. December 2017 [2017]. ISBN 9781525811364.
  • Good Luck With That. HQN. August 2018 [2018]. ISBN 9780451489395.

Awards and reception

  • 2008 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance for Catch of the Day[4]
  • 2010 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance for Too Good To Be True[4]
  • 2018 - Romantic Times Award for Best Mainstream Fiction for On Second Thought[5]
  • 2018 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Mainstream Fiction for Now That You Mention It[4]

Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages and received numerous starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus and Romantic Times. She is a five-time nominee for The Kirkus Prize for best work of fiction.[1][6]

Romantic Times calls Higgins "the master of small-town romance".[7]

Library Journal calls Higgins "the funniest author out there."

Publishers Weekly cited On Second Thought as being written with "uncommon grace and empathy." <ref>https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-451-48939-5

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.kristanhiggins.com/KH-Bio.html
  2. ↑ http://networkconnecticut.com/2014/03/romance-author-kristan-higgins/
  3. ↑ http://www.fictiondb.com/author/author.php?authorid=40707
  4. 1 2 3 "myRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners". rwa.org. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ http://www.fictiondb.com/author/kristan-higgins~book-awards~40707.htm
  7. ↑ http://freshfiction.com/author.php?id=14257


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