She was eleven before her mother realized Garwood was unable to read. After having a tonsillectomy at age six, because she missed so much school, she did not learn to read as the other children her age did. She has five sisters: Sharon, Kathleen, Marilyn, Mary Colette "Cookie", and Joanne, and one brother: Tom. Julie Garwood was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the sixth of seven children in a large Irish family. Garwood's novel For the Roses was adapted for the television feature Rose Hill. She has also written a novel for young adults called A Girl Named Summer. Over thirty-five million copies of her books are in print, and she has had at least 24 New York Times Bestsellers. Julie Garwood (born 1944 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American writer of over twenty-seven romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres.
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