Donna Hill facts for kids

Donna Hill is an American author of romance, mystery, and women's fiction. She has written over seventy novels, twenty short stories, and edited multiple anthologies. Three of Hill's novels (Intimate Betrayal, Masquerade, A Private Affair) have been adapted for screen.

Personal life

Hill cites the works of Bernice McFadden, Jesmyn Ward, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Margaret Johnson Hodge, and Patricia Cornwell's early work as some of her inspirations.

Hill is an editor of novels, and two award-winning anthologies. She is also a writing instructor at The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York. Hill holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, Essex County College and the College of New Rochelle.

Career

Donna Hill began her career writing novels in 1987, writing True Confessions, and has since published more than seventy novels and received the RT Career Achievement Award for her books.

In 2009 she launched the e-book venture InnerVision Publishing together with author Pittershawn Palmer, with the intention of focusing on multicultural books.

Selected works

Hill's first romance novel, Rooms of the Heart, was published by Odyssey Books in 1990.

Her sixth novel, Intimate Betrayal, is about Reese, who has lived with repressed-memoria amnesia ever since she lost her parents violently. Her memory gets triggered when she meets Maxwell and learns that their fathers were colleagues working for military intelligence. It was published by Harlequin Kimani Arabesque in 1997. Intimate Betrayal was adapted for screen as a TV movie for the BET network, starring Monica Calhoun, Khalil Kain, and Erica Gimpel in 1999.

She is also published under the pen name Olivia Hill.

Filmography