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Maynah Lewis

メイナ・ルイス

Maina Ruisu

Aliases: Maynah McIntire

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1919-04-14 （Liverpool, Lancashire, England）
Died
1988-07-16 age 69
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Scotland

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Musician, Teacher
Active Years
1963-1983

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1968
Work: The Future Is Forever
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: winner
Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1972
Work: The Pride of Innocence
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Future Is Forever

1967 Gothic fiction, Romance novel

The Pride of Innocence

1971 Gothic fiction, Romance novel

Bibliography

  • No Place for Love (1963)
  • Give Me This Day (1964) aka Give Us This Day
  • See the Bright Morning (1965)
  • Make Way for Tomorrow (1966)
  • The Long Hot Days (1966)
  • The Future Is Forever (1967)
  • Till Then, My Love (1968)
  • Of No Fixed Abode (1968)
  • Symphony for Two Players (1969)
  • Corner of Eden (1970)
  • The Pride of Innocence (1971)
  • Too Late for Tears (1972)
  • The Town That Nearly Died (1973)
  • The Miracle of Lac Blanche (1973)
  • The Unforgiven (1974)
  • The Other Side of Paradise (1975)
  • A Woman of Property (1976)
  • These My Children (1977)
  • Love Has Two Faces (1981)
  • Barren Harvest (1981)
  • Before the Darkness Falls (1981)
  • Hour of the Siesta (1982)
  • Whisper Who Dares (1983)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Gothic romance style

Legacy

British writer of gothic and romance novels, one of few to win the Romantic Novel of the Year Award twice.

Quotes

  • In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.
    Source: Romantic Novelists' Association's Story

Trivia

  • Author of 23 gothic and romance novels.