![]() ![]() This attitude gave birth to ‘The Devereaux Legacy.’ Hart took a mystery and reworked it as a romance novel. ![]() ![]() At the time, the romance genre was booming, and Hart considered changing lanes. She couldn’t sell her books because adult audiences did not care about mysteries written by American women. When she wrote ‘The Devereaux Legacy, Hart was desperate. After realizing that she had a knack for entertaining young readers, Hart wrote several young adult mysteries in the years that followed.īut her attempts to write suspense and mystery novels for adults did not work, not initially. The competition, which Dodd, Mead, and Calling All Girls sponsored, wanted participants to write a mystery novel for adolescent girls. She finally turned her attention to fiction in the mid-60s when she participated in a writing contest and won. Her husband was in law school at the time.Įven though Hart was doing what she had always dreamed of, she abandoned her reporting career when her son was born. After graduation, she joined The Normal Transcript. The author met her husband during a European trip in her junior year. ![]() She pursued journalism at the University of Oklahoma. Hart started practicing immediately by volunteering her skills to the school newspaper. She couldn’t imagine anything better than becoming a reporter and writing stories that mattered. Because she was a child during WWII, Hart was convinced that journalism was the most important field in the world. However, she never thought that she would spend decades writing mysteries. ![]()
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