JD Robb Biography

Most readers will know J. D. Robb by another name - Nora Roberts. However, the name J. D. Robb was actually born with is Eleanor Marie Robertson. But that isn't the end of the 'name' story! She also writes under a number of other names, including Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.

JD was born on the 10th of October in 1950, which was a Tuesday. For those readers interested in all things astrological, that makes her a Libra, which is one of the Air signs.

She was born in Silver Spring, which is a city with around 80,000 people in Maryland, which is on the Atlantic coast of the United States of America (that's the east side, or right side as you look at a map). Her father, Bernard, was a stagehand, while her mother, Eleanor, was a homemaker. The family was raised traditional Irish Catholic.

The youngest of five children, JD attended an all-girl Catholic school and then went to Montgomery Blair High School, a public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. After graduation at the age of 17, she married Ronald - against her parents wishes and…

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