Maynah Lewis

Maynah McIntire Lewis
Born Maynah McIntire
(1919-04-14)14 April 1919
Liverpool, Lancashire, UK
Died 16 July 1988(1988-07-16) (aged 69)
Pen name Maynah Lewis
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality British
Period 1963–83
Genre Gothic, romance
Notable awards RoNA Award
Spouse Victor Lewis (1936-19??)
Children 1

Maynah Lewis /ˈmaɪnə/ (née Mclntire; 14 April 1919 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England – 16 July 1988) was a British writer of 23 gothic and romance novels. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]

Biography

Born Maynah McIntire /ˈmækɪnˌtaɪr/ on 14 April 1919 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK, she was educated at schools in Scotland. In 1936, she married Victor Lewis, and had one son.[2][3]

She was a professional musician and teacher, before became writing full-time from 1958.[2][3] She won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, by her novels The Future is Forever in 1968, and The Pride of Innocence in 1972.[1]

Maynah Lewis died on 16 July 1988.[2][3]

Bibliography

[5]

  • No Place for Love (1963)
  • Give Me This Day (1964) aka Give Us This Day
  • See the Bright Morning (1965)
  • Make Way for Tomorrow (1966)
  • The Long Hot Days (1966)
  • The Future Is Forever (1967)
  • Till Then, My Love (1968)
  • Of No Fixed Abode (1968)
  • Symphony for Two Players (1969)
  • Corner of Eden (1970)
  • The Pride of Innocence (1971)
  • Too Late for Tears (1972)
  • The Town That Nearly Died (1973)
  • The Miracle of Lac Blanche (1973)
  • The Unforgiven (1974)
  • The Other Side of Paradise (1975)
  • A Woman of Property (1976)
  • These My Children (1977)
  • Love Has Two Faces (1981)
  • Barren Harvest (1981)
  • Before the Darkness Falls (1981)
  • Hour of the Siesta (1982)
  • Whisper Who Dares (1983)

References and sources

  1. 1 2 Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 2 May 2012
  2. 1 2 3 James Vinson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1982), Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers, Gale Research, p. 898
  3. 1 2 3 Lesley Henderson; D. L. Kirkpatrick (1990), Twentieth-century romance and historical writers, St. James Press, p. 856
  4. ↑ Romantic Novelists' Association's Story
  5. ↑ Maynah Lewis at FantasticFiction, 2 August 2012
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