New York Times bestselling author Charlotte Vale Allen worked (among other things) as a salesperson, a waitress, a secretary, an insurance broker and as an actress and singer before turning to writing full-time with the publication of her first novel, Love Life, in 1976.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Allen moved to the U.S. in 1966 and has lived in Connecticut since 1970. Her award-winning autobiography (and only nonfiction work), Daddy's Girl, is in its twenty-ninth paperback printing.