British writer
Suzanne Cecile Ebel Belsey Goodwin |
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| Born | Suzanne Cecile Ebel
(1916-09-27)27 September 1916
Sutton, Surrey, London, England |
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| Died | 28 February 2008(2008-02-28) (aged 91) |
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| Pen name | Suzanne Ebel,
Suzanne Goodwin,
Cecily Shelbourne |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
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| Language | English |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Period | 1963–2001 |
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| Genre | Romantic novels |
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| Notable awards | RoNA Award |
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| Spouse | 1. Adrian Belsey
2. John Goodwin (1971–2008) |
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| Children | 3 |
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Suzanne Goodwin, née Suzanne Ebel (27 September 1916 – 28 February 2008), was a British writer of over 40 romantic novels and was translated into some 15 languages.[1] Under her maiden name she wrote contemporary romances and British guides, under her married name historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne.[2] In 1964, her novel Journey from Yesterday won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award awarded by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[3] and in 1986 the British Travel Association Award.[4]
Biography
Personal life
Born Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of an Irish mother and French father, an interior decorator who drove a Rolls-Royce.[1] She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium.[4] In London, she worked as journalist on the Woman's Page of The Times Newspaper, and from 1950 to 1972 as a director of the advertising agency Young and Rubicam.[5]
She married Adrian Belsey, a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. In 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre publicist and head of publications and publicity at the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre, he also edited Peter Hall's diaries and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she was widowed.[1]
She died on 28 February 2008.[1]
Career
She published Journey from Yesterday in 1963, which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[3] She started writing contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and used her married name Suzanne Goodwin when writing historical romances.[1]
