Jill Gregory

Jill Gregory is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American author of more than thirty contemporary and historical romances, born in Chicago and educated at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where she earned a degree in English education. Much of her early career was built on Western historical romance, work recognized with back-to-back Reviewer's Choice awards for Best Western Historical Romance and a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award; her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Gregory has also written extensively alongside her longtime friend Karen Tintori, whom she met at a mother-toddler class in 1981. Their partnership produced two suspense novels published under the joint pseudonym "Jillian Karr" -- Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1993), later adapted into a CBS television movie, and Catch Me If You Can (1996) -- followed years later by two thrillers under their own names, The Book of Names (2007) and The Illumination (2009). In the early 2010s Gregory moved into small-town contemporary romance with her four-book Lonesome Way series, set in a fictional Montana ranching town. Given the size of her backlist, this catalogue currently covers the Lonesome Way series and the Gregory/Tintori collaborations; her earlier solo historical-romance series (including the Barclays and Thunder Creek books) are deferred for future curation.