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Leonora Burton
LEONORA BURTON was born and grew up in South Wales, the youngest of four daughters in a madcap family led by a father who might or might not have been a spy for the Allies in World War 11. He was a...view moreLEONORA BURTON was born and grew up in South Wales, the youngest of four daughters in a madcap family led by a father who might or might not have been a spy for the Allies in World War 11. He was a touch eccentric. Her mother had a connection to the Barrymore family of actors. After boarding school in England, Leonora became a hospital nurse in London and then moved on to the film industry in Soho. This led her to New York and a job with American film companies including Warner Brothers which at that time owned a failing magazine, Coronet. Still in her early 30s she was appointed publisher but her efforts to revive it failed. She wrote a dozen Regency romances, married and gave birth to twin boys. She lives in Garrison NY a few miles from Cold Spring where she owns a store on Main St. She is at work on a family saga and a children’s book about her black Lab Taraview less