Rebecca Brown Burton (February 14, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was a popular United States writer of over 175 romance novels under her married name Rebecca Burton, under her complete name Rebecca Brown Burton, and as Rebecca Winters for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. Born on February 14, 1940, in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Burton was the daughter of Dr. John Zimmerman Brown, Jr. and Kathryn Ormsby Hyde.
She studied in Lausanne, Switzerland.
She studied French at the University of Utah and worked as a high school French teacher.
Her more than 175 novels, written over a 35-year career, have sold almost thirty million copies worldwide.
[1] She had four children, Wilford, John, Dominique, and Maxim, and lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.