Shirl Henke (born August 18, 1942) is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels.
She has eclectic tastes and has written historical, contemporary, western, and regency-themed books.
In her first year at school she met her future husband, Jim Henke, in a shared Spanish class.
After her graduation, she worked as a cashier for a loan company, a public welfare caseworker, the assistant circulation manager for a small newspaper, and an administrator of a federal information program for the elderly.
After earning a job at the university in Ohio where her husband was a tenured professor,[3] for fifteen years Henke taught history, gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies, freshman composition, and remedial reading.