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Dee Henderson is one of the best Christian fiction writers of her time. Her favorite genre to write is suspense/romance and she does it very well. She has won or been nominated for many awards including the RITA Award, the Christy Award, the ECPA Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Reader’s Choice Award, and the Golden Quill. Dee Henderson has worked hard to make herself a bestselling author and her journey to this point has not been easy. Dee Henderson knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer, but she was afraid to jump right into the profession because she was afraid that she would not make enough money. She decided to go college to become an engineer and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science (Toliver). This allowed her to work and have a steady income while she worked on creating stories and making a work good enough to publish. In 1997 she published her first book, The Marriage Wish (“Dee Henderson Books”). This book was a Christian romance novel that was about 250 pages long. She has since grown in her writing both in terms of the size and quality of her books. …show more content…

She is 53 and has never been married, but rather, she enjoys spending time furthering her relationship with her parents and God. She avoids doing interviews due to poor hearing and she says that she has “always believed marketing should be about the book, rather than the author” (Hilliard). She wants her books to be so good that people read her works and love them for what they are, not because of her marketing. In 2006, she had a severe neck injury which prevented her from writing much which was pure torture for her (Henderson, “Dee

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