Gwynne Forster was born in North Carolina, grew up in Washington, D.C., and has lived, studied and worked in New York City ever since she became voting age. She considers herself a humanitarian, a perspective that she inherited from her mother, a high school principal, and which she also attributes to her work and education in the social sciences, more specifically, demography. Her fiction writing reflects her training in the sociology of the family and her understanding of interpersonal relations. It should not be surprising, then, that quite a few of Gwynne's novels and novellas are set within the context of the family.
Gwynne is a national bestselling and award-winning author of six novels of general fiction, twenty-eight romance novels and six novellas. All of her mainstream novels and several of her romance novels have been featured in Black Expressions magazine. When Twilight Comes,her first mainstream novel, was featured on the magazine's cover, and it also remained on the Essence magazine list of bestsellers for several months. Among her many awards and forms of recognition, Gwynne is most proud of her election in 2006 to the Affaire de Coeur magazine Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award given to her by Romantic Times magazine in 2007 and her selection by Harlequin to participate in their Warm Hands, Warm Hearts project with the St. June Children's Research Hospital.
Fiction writing is Gwynne Forster's second career. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in sociology, a masters degree in economics/demography and has additional graduate credits in journalism. As a demographer, she is widely published. She isformerlychief of (non-medical) research in fertility and family planning in the Population Division of the United Nations in New York and served for four years as chairperson of the International Programme Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London, England). These positions took her on official business to sixty-three developed and developing countries. Gwynne sings in her church choir, loves to entertain and is a museum hopper, gourmet cook and avid gardener. She enjoys classical music, opera, jazz and blues with her husband with whom she lives in New York City.
