Denise Robins

Denise Robins was a prolific English romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966). She wrote under her first married name and under the pen-names: Denise Chesterton, Eve Vaill, 'Anne Llewellyn', Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray and Julia Kane, producing short stories, plays, and about 170 Gothic romance novels. In 1965, Robins published her autobiography, Stranger Than Fiction. At the time of her death in 1985, Robins's books had been translated into fifteen languages and had sold more than one hundred million copies. In 1984, they were borrowed more than one and a half million times from British libraries.

1 February 1897

Born on the same birth day (1 February): Boris Yeltsin • Brian Krause • Dean Shiels • Ignacio Bonillas • Johan Agrell • Johannes Trithemius • Kaduvetti Guru • Langston Hughes • Muriel Spark • Rick James • Yasuyuki Kazama

Born in the same month (February 1897): Charles Kingsford Smith • Emil Leon Post • Gerrit Kleerekoper • Gertrude Blanch • Howard Deering Johnson • Ivan Albright • John Franklin Enders • Karol Świerczewski • Marian Anderson • Zakir Husain