title: Maynah Lewis
text: # Maynah Lewis
  
  Maynah Lewis /ˈmaɪnə/ (née Mclntire; 14 April 1919 in Helensburgh, Scotland, England – 16 July 1988) was a British writer of 23 gothic and romance novels. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born Maynah McIntire /ˈmækɪnˌtaɪr/ on 14 April 1919 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK, she was educated at schools in Scotland. In 1936, she married Victor Lewis, and had one son.
  
  She was a professional musician and teacher, before became writing full-time from 1958. She won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, by her novels The Future is Forever in 1968, and The Pride of Innocence in 1972.
  
     In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.
  
  Maynah Lewis died on 16 July 1988.
  
  