Bertrice Small

Bertrice Small was a New York Times best-selling author whose books captured the minds of her readers. She was considered as an erotic romance writer long before that genre existed. If you love romance novels, this is the author to go for! Bertrice Small’s widely acclaimed books were full of talent as they explored wild romance and fantasy. Bertrice Small was born on 9th December 1937 in Manhattan as Bertrice Williams, being named after her mother’s step-father. As a young girl, Bertrice Small wrote her first unpublished novel at the age of 13 in which a princess commits suicide rather that submitting to a man’s advances. Bertrice Small attended a girls’ school called St.Mary’s in Peekskill, that was run by Anglican nuns. Interestingly, Bertrice Small later enrolled in Western College for women in Ohio but dropped out. After that, she transferred to a secretarial school (Katherine Gibbs) and then got to work in advertising agencies as a secretary.