1985, and won the Romantic Times Award for Best New Historical, becoming an instant classic. Double Standards and Tender Triumph, which had been published prior to Whitney My Love, were immediately re-issued upon the tremendous success of that book. Double Standards was Ms. McNaught’s first contemporary romance, and Tender Triumph was selected as the Romantic Times Critic’s Choice Award for Best SuperRomance.
In 1987, Judith McNaught published Once and Always, which was selected as Good Housekeeping’s “Novel of the Month” (January 1987), won the Affaire de Coeur Golden Pen Certificate, and was the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award winner for Best Historical Romance. Ms. McNaught achieved her first #1 New York Times bestseller in 1988 with Something Wonderful. Each novel that followed has hit the New York Times bestseller list, they include: Kingdom of Dreams (1989); Almost Heaven (1990); Paradise (1991), which was a thirteen-week New York Times bestseller, and the first romance novel ever selected by Book-of-the-Month Club as a main selection; Perfect (1993), with which Ms. McNaught began her campaign for literacy, to which she remains committed; Until You (1994); Remember When (1996); and Night Whispers (1998), which marked Judith McNaught’s entrée into romantic suspense and appeared at #1 on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list. In August 1999, the beloved favorite Whitney, My Love was published for the first in time in hardcover. Someone To Watch Over Me, Judith McNaught’s was published by Atria Books in 2003, and Every Breath You Take was published by Ballantine Books in 2005. An expanded version of Every Breath You Take was published in 2006 with bonus scenes featuring reappearances by some of Judith’s most popular characters.
Prior to her career as a writer, Ms. McNaught enjoyed success in the fields of radio, motion pictures and finance. Among her varied experiences, she was the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station, assistant director of a film crew, a comptroller of a major trucking company, president of a temporary employment agency and president of an executive search firm, and has been involved with a number
of philanthropic endeavors.
Judith McNaught lives in Dallas, Texas.