Word: evanovich
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...successful author--and she is a very successful author--Janet Evanovich, 59, has many unfashionable tastes. She loved her years as a stay-at-home mom, in an era when feminist, have-it-all ideals reigned. She adores romance novels, though many women read them only with the curtains drawn. She is addicted to junk food, never mind that tofu is de rigeur...
Remnants of her blue-collar childhood? Maybe. But Evanovich can well afford to be out of the loop, since her eight crime novels--the first of which she published when she was 51--have made her a top national seller in the genre. In its first week of publication, her latest, Hard Eight, jumped to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list...
...Evanovich grew up in South River, N.J., where her father was a machinist and her mother a housewife. She met her husband Pete in high school and married him in college. She then had a daughter and son and followed Pete, who has a Ph.D. in mathematics, as he changed postings in the Navy. "I loved being a housewife," she recalls. "I thought it was very creative. You got to make things--cooking, baking, sewing. I got to color in coloring books with the kids and build forts out of blocks." But she couldn't shake a nagging desire...