Luanne Rice

Luanne Rice was born September 25, 1955 in New Britain, Connecticut. The daughter of a teacher and a typewriter man, she is the oldest of three sisters.
Rice's first poem was published in 1966, in the Hartford Courant. Starting in 1970, her short stories began to be published in Ascent, the Massachusetts Review, American Girl, and Redbook. She attended Connecticut College, but dropped out to write. To support her writing, she worked as a maid in Newport, Rhode Island; a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC; and a whale researcher and deckhand in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college's Special Collections Library.Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels, most recently The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, Summer of Roses, Summer's Child, Silver Bells, Beach Girls and Dance With Me. Most of her novels deal with love and family, and many are set in the Fictional town of Hubbard's Point, Connecticut. An environmentalist, she often writes about nature and the sea.

She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut and lived for two years in Paris, France. She's of Irish-Catholic descent.

Several of her novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love 1992; Blue Moon 1999; Follow the Stars Home 2001 (Hallmark Hall of Fame)[6]; Beach Girls 2005 (Lifetime mini-series); Silver Bells 2005 (Hallmark Hall of Fame.)[7] Her movies have starred Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Bill Pullman, Gena Rowlands, Blair Brown, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Eric Close, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Anne Heche, Tate Donovan, Sharon Lawrence, Richard Kiley, and Kim Hunter.