Rebecca Winters

Rebecca Winters, born Rebecca Brown, is an American romance novelist from Salt Lake City, Utah, who began her writing career in the late 1970s with novels like By Love Divided under her real name Rebecca Burton and Blind to Love under Rebecca Winters for Harlequin. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland at 17, earned a B.A. in secondary education, history, French, and Spanish from the University of Utah, and pursued postgraduate work in Arabic, later teaching French and history while writing extensively for Harlequin, earning awards such as the National Readers' Choice Award and Utah Writer of the Year.