Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay | |
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Born | Eileen Ainsworth 16 December 1940 Ayrshire, Scotland |
Died | 18 January 2023 | (aged 82)
Pen name | Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay; Eileen Ramsay |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Period | 1985–2023 |
Genre | Romance, Children's fiction |
Spouse | Ian Ramsay |
Children | 2 |
Website | |
eileenramsay |
Eileen Ramsay (née Ainsworth; 16 December 1940 – 18 January 2023)[1] was a British writer of romance novels. She wrote 18 books from 1985.
Eileen Ainsworth was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on 16 December 1940. After graduating[where?] she went to teach in the United States for 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish scientist, and they had two children. They returned to Scotland, and after teaching for a few years she became a full-time writer.[2]
Ramsay was elected the twenty-seventh chairman (2015–2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[3]
Ramsay died of pneumonia on 18 January 2023 at the age of 82.[4]