title: Cathy Gillen Thacker
text: # Cathy Gillen Thacker
  
  Cathy Gillen Thacker is an American author of over seventy romance novels.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Thacker began writing to occupy herself while she was raising small children. She wrote seven books as she taught herself how to be an author. Her eighth attempt was finally published in July 1982. She has written over seventy novels since then, which have been published in seventeen languages and thirty-five countries.
  
  Thacker is a charter member of Romance Writers of America. She and her husband Charlie have three children, Julie, David, and Sarah.
  
  