Barbara Schenck under the pseudonym Anne McAllister is an American best-selling writer of over 55 romance novels since 1985.
Barbara Schenck was born in California, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in Colorado and visiting relatives in Montana.
She met her husband through her job at a university library, and they have been married for over thirty years.
Before she began writing, she held jobs as a Spanish teacher, copyediting textbooks, and ghostwriting sermons.
She has twice won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and has been a finalist an additional seven times.