“I started writting as a hobby,” she says. She wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977, on a whim. Johanna Lindsey was a fan of romance novels herself. She died on Octoat the age of 67, from lung cancer. After her husband’s death, Lindsey moved to Maine she did not remarry. The marriage continued residing in Hawaii and produced three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph, becoming a young housewife. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he died in 1964, Lindsey and her mother settled there to honor him. The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Lindsey was born on 10 March 1952 in Germany, where her father, a soldier in the U.S. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching #1. S.), under the pen name “Johanna Lindsey”, is one of the most popular American writers of historical romance novels worldwide.