She sees Caleb as unlike any lawyer she knows when he is conducting his business in a tavern in the middle of the day. Caleb thinks Meredith is over reacting but tells her he will do what he can to take care of her citation. Forget the fact she doesn't trust them, she wants to protect her reputation. When Meredith has an unfortunate situation at a public beach she decides she needs a lawyer. Her sister Carolyn died of breast cancer in 1998. Hernovel Barefoot in the Grass has appeared on the recommended reading listsdistributed by cancer support services at several hospitals.īarbara lives in a small town not far from Boston, Massachusetts, New England with her husband, two teenage sons, and a guinea pig named Wilbur. She has also been a finalist for theGolden Medallion Award and the RITA Award for Romance Writer of America.

She has received severalawards from Romantic Times Magazine, including awards for the Best HarlequinAmerican Romance of the Year, Best Harlequin Superromance of the Year, BestSeries Romantic Novel of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Certificate ofMerit for Innovative Series Romance. Her first MIRA novel will appear in 2001. She has recently signed a contract with MIRABooks. Barbara has sold more than 70 novels, with eight millioncopies in print worldwide. Shewrote one novel as Thea Frederick, and since 1985 she writes asJudith Arnold. Since her first romance novel's publication in 1983 as Ariel Berk. She has also written several plays that have beenprofessionally staged at regional theaters in San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,Connecticut and off-off-Broadway. After that, I knew this was the man I wanted to marry.'īarbara has received writing fellowships from the Shubert Foundation and theNational Endowment for the Arts, and has taught at colleges and universitiesaround the country. That he would just drop whathe was doing, put his life on hold and race to my side told me how much heloved me. He stayed fortwo weeks, until I was pretty well recovered. Neither of us had any money, but he saidhe simply couldn't concentrate on his research, knowing I was three thousandmiles away and facing a serious health problem all by myself. I became ill, and he hopped on a plane and flewacross the country to be with me. She says: 'Before myhusband and I were married, I had a job in California and he was working onhis Ph.D. She was four when her sister, Carolyn, stuffed a crayon intoher hand and taught her the alphabet, and she's been writing ever since.īarbara is a graduate of Smith College, where she learned to aim for thestars, and she received a master's degree in creative writing from BrownUniversity, where she took aim at a good-looking graduate student in thechemistry department and wound up marrying him.

She started telling stories before shecould write. Aka Ariel Berk, Thea Frederick, Judith Arnoldīarbara Keiler was born on April 7th.

The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold