Personal life Jackie Diamond Hyman was born on April 3, 1949, in
Menard, Texas, United States. She is the daughter of Maurice Hyman, M.D., former chief of
psychiatry at the
Veterans Administration Medical Center in
Nashville, Tennessee, and ceramic sculptor
Sylvia Hyman. Hyman was married in 1978 to Kurt Wilson and has two sons.
Career Hyman graduated from
Brandeis University in
Waltham, Massachusetts, and received a
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel and write in Europe. After moving to
Orange County, California, in 1972, she worked as a reporter and editor for
The Orange Coast Daily Pilot and as a copy editor for the
Orange County Register. She worked as a reporter and editor the Associated Press (AP) in Los Angeles from 1980 to 1983, and continued to write theater-related articles for the AP until 1999. In 1993–1994, she wrote a weekly television column for AP that was nationally distributed. She teaches short story, article and novel writing through Long Ridge Writers Group, and is the author of How to Write a Novel in One (Not-so-easy) Lesson. She sold her first in 1982. She is a two-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's
RITA Award and received a career achievement award from
Romantic Times Book Club magazine. == Bibliography ==