Pamela Browning Papers

Pamela Browning was born in Evanston, Illinois. She traveled with her parents when her father was a big-band musician and, for the most part, lived in Chicago until she was nine. She then moved to Florida where she eventually graduated college. She has worked in the Training Department of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Florida Research and Development Center, has been a newspaper reporter and columnist, and as Assistant Director of Public Information at a four-year liberal-arts college. She has also worked for the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources as a tour guide at the CSS Neuse, the remains of an ironclad ship from the Confederate Navy.

Browning's first novel, Sands of Xanadu (written as Melanie Rowe) was published by Silhouette in 1982, and in the years since has published more than 50 books, including YA romance under the name Pam Ketter and contemporary romance as Pamela Browning. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Mills and Boon, and Berkley as well as by various international publishers, including Mondadori in Italy and Cora Verlag in Germany. Her books are sold in 90 countries and have been translated into 21 languages. Pamela's short stories and articles have appeared in Highlights for Children, Child Life, The Writer, and other publications.

Many of her novels have been listed on bestseller lists. Her book The Mommy Wish won a 2005 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine, and she has won the Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie as well as first-place awards for her adult and juvenile novels in the annual National Federation of Press Women contest.

Browning is a former newspaper reporter, columnist and feature writer who has appeared on both local and national television programs. She was a contestant on the quiz show Jeopardy! in 1989.

Pamela Browning is a charter member of Romance Writers of America, a member of the National Federation of Press Women, Media Women of South Carolina, Novelists, Inc., and the Authors Guild.