Francine Rivers

Francine Rivers is one of the New York Times Bestselling authors from America who has written several successful novel series’ based on the Romance, Historical and Christian Fiction genres. She was born in the year 1947 in the United States and used to write her novels on the historical romance theme in the beginning. It was in the year 1986 that she started writing Christian fiction novels. Francine is best known for writing the inspirational novel Redeeming Love. One of the other novels written by her, The Lat Sin Eater has been adapted into a feature film. Francine was born to a police officer father, while her mother was a nurse. She had the dream of becoming a published author right from her childhood days. Keeping that in mind, she got herself admitted in the University of Nevada in Reno and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the subjects of Journalism and English. After completing her graduation, Francine began working as a newspaper reporter. She used to write obituaries and several stories relate to the interest of humans. She did not attempt anything big in relation to her dream of becoming a novelist till her marriage. It was due to her mother-in-law because of whom Francine developed the interest in romance novels. She lent some of her romance novels to Francine and she was so impressed by the stories that she decided to try and write a novel herself in that genre. As a result, she wrote and sold her first manuscript in the year 1976 and kept writing historical romance novels for the years to come. When Francine decided to write novels on the Christian fiction theme in the year 1986, she found it difficult to develop the plots for her new novels in the first three years. Francine thought of spending her time in reading the Bible instead and began to develop several plots. For the next few years Francine Rivers maintained her focus on writing Christian novels and when the first novel of the new genre was published in the year 1991 titled ‘Redeeming Love’, she considered it to be a statement of her faith. The novel depicts the life story of a prostitute named Angel, who gets reformed and converted to Christianity eventually with the help of love and stoic patience of Michael Hosea, who was a frontier farmer.