
At this seminar, she met an agent that was so impressed with her work, they decided to become her agent. Jo and Ken moved to Montreal for a period of time, where she attended a seminar at a library. Since she wasn’t qualified to really work in her field in Canada, Jo decided to finally pursue her writing. In 1976, Jo’s husband Ken received an offer to take a job in Canada. Her husband, Ken, was a scientist.Īfter graduating from Keele, she accepted a job as a youth employment officer, she worked for a couple of different employers before moving on. She met her husband at Keele University and they got married about a year after she graduated. She attended an all-girls boarding school, where, at sixteen years old, she wrote her first romance in parts.Īfter boarding school, Jo got a degree in English history at Keele University in Staffordshire. Jo loved to write ever since she could start writing she just never thought of it as a career until later in life. Jo Beverley, born Mary Josephine Dunn, was born on the twenty second of September in 1947, in Blackpool, England. Even though she has left this world, she is still in our hearts and minds every time we read one of her captivating books. Jo has over thirty published historical romances as well as many other small pieces. She is one of eighteen members of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Jo Beverley is a very well-known and beloved name in the historical romance world.
