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- Birth nameJanet Ann Haradon
- Janet Dailey was born on May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA. She was a writer, known for Foxfire Light (1983), When a Spider Bites (1993) and A Word on Words (1972). She was married to Bill Dailey. She died on December 14, 2013 in Branson, Missouri, USA.
- SpouseBill Dailey(1963 - August 5, 2005) (his death)
- Dailey was born in a small rural town, and her farmer father died when she was young.
- Dailey was briefly a secretary in a Missouri construction company who married her boss, Bill Dailey, when she was 19, but who then went on to become a prodigious writer of romance fiction, transforming herself into one of the most successful in history, with some 300 million copies of her books sold.
- She was a popular romance novelist. Her books include the "Calder" novels, and her Americana series - 50 books, one set in each state of the US. Her works have been translated into 19 languages.
- She wrote well over 100 books, mostly for Canada's Harlequin publisher, from 1976 to 1984. Her Americana series for Harlequin consisted of 50 books, one set in each U.S. state.
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