She sent her manuscript to best-selling novelist Kathleen E. This story became her first novel, The Fulfillment. one morning, and quickly began writing down her story in a three-ring notebook. She decided to try transferring to paper a recurring dream she was having about a story based on her grandmother's lifestyle on a Minnesota farm. Woodiwiss, which gave her the idea to become a novelist. Writing career First novel Īlthough she showed a flair for writing during high school, Spencer didn't begin her first novel until she was in her thirties, working as a teacher's aide at Osseo Junior High School, she had read 'The Flame and The Flower' by the bestselling author Kathleen E. They now live in North Oaks MN, where Spencer enjoys gardening, cooking, playing bass guitar and electric piano, and photography. They lived in a Victorian house in Stillwater, Minnesota until selling their family home in 2011. The two had three daughters, Sarah, Amy and Beth (Beth unfortunately passed in 1990 and Amy in 2018 unexpectedly), and are grandparents to Spencer and Logan Kimball.

They have just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary (married in February 1962). Shortly after her high school graduation Spencer married her high school sweetheart Dan Spencer. Spencer was born on July 17, 1943, in Browerville, Minnesota, where she was raised. She retired from writing in 1997.īiography Personal life Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. LaVyrle Spencer (born July 17, 1943) is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels.

The Endearment by LaVyrle Spencer