Jill Marie Landis (born November 8, 1948, in Clinton, Indiana, United States) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.
in history from Long Beach State University, Landis held summer jobs working as a ride operator for Fantasyland at Disneyland.
Although Landis wrote her first romance novel in junior high, she did not decide to pursue a writing career until 1983.
Landis and her husband of over forty years, Steve, an actor and slack key guitar player, claim to share their eighty-year-old home in Long Beach, California, with the ghost of writer Upton Sinclair.
Landis has successfully completed the 6.5 hour kayaking trip around Kauai's Na Pali coastline, and she also enjoys raising orchids, playing the ukulele, quilting and dancing hula.