Eileen Goudge was
born on the Fourth of July, 1950. She grew up in the San Francisco
Bay Area, one of six children. Her father, Robert James, served in
the air force during World War II and her mother, Mary Louise, was
a talented cook, from whom Eileen inherited her love of baking. She
began her writing career, back in the early seventies, as a
freelance journalist. She sold to such publications as
McCall’s magazine, Reader’s Digest, The
San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic’s Explorer,
and Highlights for Children. 

In the early eighties, while raising two children, she devoted her
time to writing novels for young adults. She wrote for the
successful Sweet Valley High series before creating
several series of her own: Seniors, Swept Away, and
Who Killed Peggy Sue? In all, she has published thirty-two
young adult novels.

Her first novel for adults, GARDEN OF LIES, published in 1986, went
on to become a New York Times bestseller, both in
hardcover and paperback, selling over a million copies in paperback
alone. She followed up with another New York Times
bestseller, SUCH DEVOTED SISTERS. She has published a total of
twelve novels of women’s fiction, including her most recent,
WOMAN IN RED. She has also published one cookbook, SOMETHING WARM
FROM THE OVEN: Baking Memories, Making Memories. According
to Eileen, “What goes better with a good book than a cup of
tea and something sweet to nibble on?” 

There are more than five million copies of her books in print,
world-wide. 

She lives in New York City with her husband, TV and radio reporter
Sandy Kenyon. They met on the air when he was interviewing her for
his then-talk show, in Arizona. As Eileen says, “We just
kept talking.” Twelve years later the honeymoon
continues. Currently, they are building a house in the Pacific
Northwest, where they will eventually move, though Eileen has no
intention of ever retiring. “While there’s breath
in me, there will always be a book,” she says. 

Books by Eileen Goudge

Domestic Affairs

by Eileen Goudge - Fiction, Romance

The Diary

by Eileen Goudge - Fiction

When two grown daughters discover their mother's diary in her attic, they are stunned to learn her true love was not their father.

Woman in Red

by Eileen Goudge - Fiction, Literary Fiction