Linda Howard
Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard.
Biography
Howington began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own enjoyment. She worked at a trucking company where she met her husband, Gary F. Howington, and then decided to try to get her work published in 1980. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for publication which was very successful. Her first work, All That Glitters, was published by Silhouette in 1982.Howington joined the Romance Writers of America in 1981, shortly after it was formed. She served as Region 3 Director. In 2017, Howard criticized the RWA's attempts to be more inclusive of non-white authors, writing on an internal forum that "Diversity for the sake of diversity is discrimination". The controversy caused by her statement led Howington to resign from the organization.
Her husband was a professional bass tournament fisherman, and she traveled with him and worked on her laptop. The couple lived on a farm in Alabama, where they raised cattle and had two dogs. Linda’s husband passed away on January 3, 2025
Awards
2005 - . Career Achievement AwardSingle novels
- All That Glitters
- An Independent Wife
- Against the Rules
- Come Lie With Me
- Tears of the Renegade
- The Cutting Edge
- The Way Home
- Overload
- Heart of Fire
- Dream Man
- After the Night
- Lake of Dreams
- Shades of Twilight
- White Out
- Son of the Morning
- Night Moves
- Now You See Her
- Blue Moon
- Mr. Perfect
- Open Season
- Strangers In the Night
- Dying to Please
- Cry no More
- Killing Time
- Cover Of Night
- Up Close and Dangerous
- Death Angel
- Burn
- Ice
- Veil of Night
- Prey
- ''Shadow Woman''
Spencer-Nyle Co. series
- Sarah's child
- Almost forever
- ''Bluebird winter''
Rescues (Kell Sabin) series
- Midnight rainbow
- Diamond Bay
- Heartbreaker
- ''White lies''
MacKenzie Family Saga series
- MacKenzie's mountain
- MacKenzie's mission
- MacKenzie's pleasure
- MacKenzie's magic
- ''A game of chance''
A Lady Of The West series
- A lady of the west
- Angel creek
- ''The touch of fire''
Patterson-Cannon Family series
- Duncan's bride
- ''Loving Evangeline''
CIA's Spies (John Medina) series
- Kill and tell
- All the Queen's men
- ''Kiss me while I sleep''
Blair Mallory series
- To Die For
- ''Drop Dead Gorgeous''
GO-Team series
- Troublemaker
- ''The Woman Left Behind''
Linda Howard & Linda Jones
Vampire
- Blood Born
- 2 'Warrior Rising'
Men from Battle Ridge
- ''Running Wild''
Collections
- Trouble: Midnight Rainbow / Diamond Bay
- Night Moves: Dream Man / After the Night
- Strangers in the Night: Lake of Dreams / Blue Moon / White Out
- Shades of Twilight / Son of the Morning
- Angel Creek / Lady of the West
- Mackenzies Bundle: "Mackenzie's Mountain / Mackenzie's Mission / Mackenzie's Pleasure / A Game Of Chance"
- At His Mercy: Mackenzies Magic / Heartbreaker / Overload
- Duncan's Bride / Loving Evangeline
- Exposure: The Cutting Edge / White Lies
Omnibus in collaboration
- Silhouette Christmas Stories, 1987
- To Mother with Love
- Silhouette Summer Sizzlers, '93
- Christmas Kisses
- Forever Yours
- Harlequin
- Upon a Midnight Clear
- Heart's Desire
- Everlasting Love
- Heart and Soul
- Summer Sensations
- Always and Forever
- Through the Years
- Under the Boardwalk
- A Bouquet of Babies
- MacKenzie's Pleasure / Defending His Own
- Come Lie with Me / Part of the Bargain / Yesterday's Love
- Finding Home
- Summer Heat
- Unlikely Alliances
- Overload / If a Man Answers
- Delivered by Christmas
- What the Heart Can't Hide
- On His Terms
- 100 Per Cent Hero
- A Mother's Touch
- Irresistible
- Way Home / Cowboy's Christmas Miracle / Because a Husband is Forever
- "Raintree: Inferno", by Linda Howard, "Raintree: Haunted", by Linda Winstead Jones, "Raintree: Sanctuary", by Beverly Barton
- Under the Mistletoe, &
- Almost Forever / For the Baby's Sake
- Lethal Attraction,