{"source_records": ["bwb:9781477808429"], "personal_name": "Bobbi Smith", "key": "/authors/OL762945A", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Barbara Elaine Smith", "Julie Marshall", "Bobbi Walton", "Elaine Barbieri,Constance O'Banyon,Evelyn Rogers,Bobbi Smith"], "photos": [7258066], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "After working as a department manager for Famous-Barr, and briefly as a clerk at a bookstore, Bobbi Smith gave up on career security and began writing. She sold her first book to Zebra in 1982.\r\n\r\nSince then, Bobbi has written over 40 books and 6 novellas. To date, there are more than five million of her novels in print. She has been awarded the prestigious Romantic Times Storyteller of the Year Award and two Career Achievement Awards. Her books have appeared on numerous bestseller lists.\r\n\r\nWhen she's not working on her novels, she is frequently a guest speaker for writer's groups. Bobbi is mother of two sons and resides in St. Charles, Missouri with her husband and three dogs."}, "birth_date": "1949", "name": "Bobbi Smith", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "78503913", "isni": "0000000045066151", "goodreads": "13375", "wikidata": "Q19357336", "lc_naf": "no2005005804"}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-24T20:56:48.018728"}}