{"type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "**Nicola Cornick** was born in Yorkshire, England, within a stone's throw of the moors that had inspired the Bronte sisters to write Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. One of her grandfathers was a poet. With such a background it was impossible for Nicola not to become a writer. \r\n\r\nNicola studied history at London University and has done a variety of jobs, from sticking price tags on shoes in a factory to serving refreshments on a steam railway. She lived for seven years in a cottage haunted by the ghost of a cavalier. It was here that she wrote her first historical romance for Mills & Boon. Since then she has written more than 15 novels for Mills & Boon (reedited by Harlequin), and been nominated for a number of awards including the British Romance Prize by the Romantic Novelists' Association, and RITA by the Romance Writers of America, and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award. She is a Membership Secretary for the RNA and critique manuscripts for aspiring authors via the RNA's New Writers' Scheme, and also for the RWA Beau Monde mentor scheme."}, "personal_name": "Nicola Cornick", "name": "Nicola Cornick", "source_records": ["amazon:8468735566"], "key": "/authors/OL1385994A", "photos": [7322981], "birth_date": "1965-08-15", "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q7028987", "viaf": "9337564", "isni": "0000000115927739", "gnd": "142079219"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-29T10:57:19.642658"}}