Irene Hannon (also known as Irene Hannon Gottlieb) is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels.
[2] She and her brother James, Jr. grew up in Brentwood, Missouri a suburb of St. Louis where she frequently spent time at the local library, eventually working there in high school and college.
While working at Anheuser-Busch, Hannon began publishing her writing in the 1980s, and eventually left her job to pursue writing fiction full-time.
She has won three RITA Awards for her romantic fiction and was inducted in the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame.
[6] She is married to Thomas Gottlieb,[7] and she enjoys gardening, cooking, travelling, and singing in musicals.