Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers always wanted to become a published writer. She majored in English in college and has a minor in journalism. She became a newspaper reporter after her graduation writing human interest stories and obituaries.
She wrote historical romance novels and published her first book in 1976. In the 1980s, she became a born again Christian and spent a lot of her time studying the Bible. After about three years, her novels then were centered around a Christian theme.
Her first Christian writing was Redeeming Love, in 1991. This story was based on the book of Hosea and was about a prostitute named Angel who found redeeming love through a patient and kind husband named Michael Hosea. The story did not take place in biblical times, but rather in the America in the 1850s.
She has been honored with many awards like the Christy Award, the ECPA Gold Medallion, and the Holt Medallion. She has won four RWA RITA awards, which is the highest award given in romantic fiction.
In 2007, her book The Last Sin Eater became a movie directed by Michael Landon, Jr.
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