[2] Jeanne Hines was born in Moorefield, West Virginia, the daughter of Llewellyn Brown McNeill and Bess Heiskell McNeil.
She married in 1943 Edward Thomas Hines (March 2, 1914 - Dec. 8, 2001) and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, but she was writing while she traveled with her husband between their five mansions along the East Coast.
[3] She worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator before turning to fiction and becoming a novelist.
She won the Romantic Times 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award in the category of "historical adventure".
[4] When author Chris Marie Green (aka Crystal Green), was 19, she wrote a fan letter to Hines, and the historical author answered the gushing missive and inspired her to write her first romance.