After that, she shifted to the Virgin Islands along with her husband and began working in elementary school as a librarian. The two had met each other for the first time while studying at the San Jose University. Just after completing her graduation, Amanda married an engineer named Frank Krentz. Amanda was fearful that she will not be able to find a satisfying job with her degree, and therefore, she decided to pursue a graduate degree in the subject of Library Science from the San Jose State University. A in the subject of History in the year 1970. Later, she attended the California University, located in Santa Cruz and earned her degree in B. Author Quick was born on 28 March 1948 in Cobb, California, The United States.ĭuring initial 10 years of her life, she was brought up by her mother named Alberta in Borrego Springs, along with her two brothers. The immense success of her romance novels has helped her win the Susan Koppelman Award for the Feminist Studies.

Amanda writes all her romance novels with so much dedication and understanding that she has already begun considering herself as the outspoken advocate of the romance genre. Amanda even expanded the boundaries of this genre with her 1996 novel named Amaryllis, which was the first paranormal futuristic suspense and romance novel. She used this sub-genre to develop the plot of her novel Sweet Starfire. With this immense success, she began experimenting with the plot of her novels and went on to create a unique sub-genre called futuristic romance. The success of Amanda as one of the prominent authors can be understood from the fact that she has been able to sell more than 35 million copies of her novels in print all over the world. Other than that, Amanda also writes paranormal and futuristic romantic-suspense novels using her maiden name. She uses her original name after marriage for writing contemporary romance and suspense novels, whereas under the pseudonym Amanda Quick, she mostly writes the novels based on the historical suspense and romance novels. As of now, author Quick uses just three pen names for writing her novels based on different genres. Besides these, Amanda has also written some novels under her original name Jayne Ann Krentz. The other pen names that she has used for writing her novels are Jayne Castle, Jayne Bentley, Amanda Glass, Jayne Taylor, Stephanie James, etc. But, those 40 novels were written by her under different pseudonyms. Amanda is best known for being featured in the New York Times bestseller list for as many as 40 times consecutively. She liked to write most of her novels based on the Suspense, Fantasy, and Romance genres. Amanda Quick is the pen name used by one of the most popular authors in America named Jayne Ann Krentz.

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