Ann Major

Margaret Major Cleaves
BornMargaret Major
(1946-02-13) February 13, 1946 (age 78)
Texas, United States
Pen nameAnn Major,
Margaret Major Cleaves
OccupationNovelist
EducationDel Mar College
University of Texas at Austin (BA)
Period1980–present
GenreRomance
Website
annmajor.com

Margaret Major Cleaves (born February 13, 1946) is an author of over 45 romance novels since 1980, writing under her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major.

She is a founding member of the Romance Writers of America and the co-author of the article "The Contemporary Light Romance" which has been collected in the book Writing and Selling the Romance Novel.

Biography

Margaret Major was born February 13, 1946, in Texas, United States.

Major attended Del Mar College, the University of the Americas in Mexico City, and the University of Texas at Austin from which she received a B.A. in English and Spanish. She taught school for two years before going on to receive her M.A. in English and Spanish from Texas A & I University. She has studied music at the university level and speaks three languages: English, Spanish and French. Major married and began writing after her first child was born. She sold her first novel six years later.

She is a founding board member of the Romance Writers of America and the co-author of the article "The Contemporary Light Romance" which has been collected in the book Writing and Selling the Romance Novel. She lives with her husband in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Bibliography

As Margaret Major Cleaves

Single novels

  • Midnight Surrender (1980)
  • Wild Enough for Willa (1980)*
  • Wild Lady (1981)*
  • A Touch of Fire (1982)*
  • Dream Come True: Florida (1982)*
  • Meant to be (1982)*
  • Love Me Again (1983)*
  • Seize the Moment (1984)*
  • The Wrong Man (1984)*
  • Golden Man (1985)*
    • Reedited as Ann Major*

As Ann Major

Single novels

  • Brand of Diamonds (1983)
  • Dazzle (1985)
  • Beyond Love (1985)
  • In Every Stranger's Face (1986)
  • What This Passion Means (1987)
  • The Fairy Tale Girl (1987)
  • A Knight in Tarnished Armor (1991)
  • Married to the Enemy (1992)
  • The Accidental Bridegroom (1994)
  • A Cowboy Christmas (1995)
  • The Accidental Bodyguard (1996)
  • Love Me True (1999)
  • Inseparable (1999)
  • Midnight Fantasy (2000)
  • Cowboy Fantasy (2001)
  • A Cowboy and a Gentleman (2002)
  • Marry a Man Who Will Dance (2002)
  • The Hot Ladies Murder Club (2003)
  • The Secret Lives Of Doctors' Wives (2006)
  • The Amalfi Bride (2007)
  • Sold Into Marriage (2007)

Wild Series

  1. Wild Honey (1993)
  2. Wild Midnight (1993)
  3. Wild Innocence (1994)

Children of Destiny Series

  1. Passion's Child (1988)
  2. Destiny's Child (1988)
  3. Night Child (1988)
  4. Wilderness Child (1989)
  5. Scandal's Child (1990)
  6. The Goodbye Child (1991)
  7. Nobody's Child (1997)
  8. Secret Child (1998)

The Girls with the Golden Love Series

  1. The Girl with the Golden Spurs (2004)
  2. The Girl with the Golden Gun (2005)

Lone Star Country Club Series Multi-Author

    • Shameless (2003)

Fortunes of Texas: Reunion Series Multi-Author

    • Cowboy at Midnight (2005)

Collections

  • Silhouette Christmas Stories 1990 (1990)
  • Silhouette Christmas Stories 1992 (1992)
  • Dazzled! (1999
  • Getting Hitched Vol. 8: Marriage Diamond Style; Married to the Enemy; The Perfect Husband; I Thee Wed (1999))
  • Fortunes of Texas / Reunion / Cowboy at Midnight (2006)

Omnibus in collaboration

References and sources