Denise Robins(Naomi Klein) (1. Daughter of Kit Dealtry, Mother of Patricia Robinsaka Denise Chesterton, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Hervey Hamilton, Julia Kane, Francesca Wright. Denise Naomi Klein was born on 1 February 1. London, England, daughter of Herman Klein (1. Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell(1. Her parents married on 1. February 1. 89. 0 at the West London Synagogue, her father was a English music critic, author and teacherof singing and her mother was a Australian- born heiress, 1. Denise had a half- sister, Sibyl Klein, who became an actress. She also had two older brothers, Adrian Bernard L.
Klein(1. 89. 2- 1. Adrian Cornwell- Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Daryl Kleyn (b. Duringher parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Worcestershire Regiment officer, Herbert Arthur Berkeley Dealtry (b. When her fatherbecame aware of it, he filed a petition for divorce, which was granted in December 1. After the divorce, her mother married Dealtry in 1. They had to declare bankruptcy in 1. The sameyear her father remarried with Helene Fox, a Christian Science practitioner of Boston, Massachusetts. Denise Robins, one of our greatest authors, knew she could sell on her name more than other authors could. She was a superstar, and she knew it.As Kit Dealtry, her mother began topublish her own writings, first short stories in magazines an later gothic novels. Years later, and single again her mother returned to London. In. 19. 18, and remarried for a third time with Sydney H. Groom, andstarted to sign her novels as C. Groom, Mrs Sydney Groom, Kathleen Clarice. Groom and Clarice Groom. After Naomi left school, she decided follow in hermother's footsteps, and to publish her writings. She went to work as ajournalist for the D. C. Thomson Press, then became a freelance writer. Denise married Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange, but the marriage ended in divorce, after she met O'Neill Pearson in Egypt, who laterbecame her second husband. She was the mother of three daughters, Patricia Robins (also know as Claire Lorrimer) who became another best- sellingromance author, Anne, and Eve. As a writer of fiction, Denise wrote short stories, plays and about 2. Denise Chesterton, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, and Julia Kane, she also used to sign the books her first married name,Denise Robins, and some of her books were reedited under this pen- name. In. 19. 27, over ten years after she began to publish, Denise meet Charles Boon,of Mills & Boon, and she signed her first contract with his firm the sameyear. In a short time, she became the best paid Mills & Boon's writer, and one of the most prolific, but in 1. Nicholson& Watson, that made her a better offer, and later with Hodder & Stoughton. During her very long career she worked with major publishing houses. Taylor Caldwell said: . In 1. 96. 5,she wrote her autobiography, . Denise passed away 1. May 1. 98. 5 in her native England. At the time of her death her novels, translated into 1. In 1. 98. 4,they were borrowed more than 1. British libraries. Appears in 'Stranger Than Fiction'. Appears in 'Stranger Than Fiction'. Nash's Magazine 12/1933 & 'A Century Of Horror Stories', 1935).
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