Bette Lee Crosby

Bette Lee Crosby is am American award-winning author best known for bringing in the wit and charm of the southern story telling traditions into fiction. Crosby was born in Detroit but spent most of her life in many of the Northeast and Southern states. The result of her southern upbringing is an eclectic mix of romance, mystery, humor and a dose of quirky characters to steal the heart of any southern fiction reader. She would study art and become a packaging designer writing copy on the backs of packaging packs. It was while she was working for the packaging company that she discovered her love for writing, even though she had always written since she was child. After writing for her design company for years, she quit the packaging company to concentrate on fiction writing. Storytelling has always been in her blood as she says the Southern belle in her has always loved storytelling. In fact, she asserts that while her mother was not a writer by any means, she was a very good storyteller and voice makes its way into her novels now and then. Crosby first came to the attention of the literary world when she was the recipient of the National League of American Pen Women Award for a manuscript she had as yet not published. Since that time the author has gone on to win numerous awards for her series of novels that include Memory House, Wyattsville, and Serendipity. The novels have won the Readers View Southeast Fiction Literary Award in 2010, the FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal, three time Royal Palm Literary Awards, and the NLAPW award among others.