Carla Kelly

USA Today best-selling author Carla Kelly is the author of forty-six novels and three non-fiction works, and numerous short stories. She is the recipient of two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Regency of the Year; two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America; three Whitney Awards from Storymakers; and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. Carla's interest in historical fiction is a byproduct of her scholar's study of history. Her variety of jobs include medical public relations work, feature writer and columnist for a North Dakota daily newspaper, and ranger in the National Park Service at Fort Laramie National Historic Site and Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. She has done contract research for the North Dakota Historical Society. Interest in the Napoleonic Wars led to novels about the Royal Navy Channel Fleet, as well as the British Army in Spain. Carla has also written novels set in Wyoming in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has also written about World War II on the home front. Her books have been translated into numerous languages.