Sandra Brown, n e Sandra Lynn Cox is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire.Born Sandra Lynn Cox on March 12, 1948 in Waco, Texas, and was raised in Ft. Worth. She majored in English at Texas Christian University. Brown worked for KLTV in Tyler, as a reporter on PM Magazine, as a model in Dallas, and as a weathercaster for WFAA-TV in Dallas.
In 1968, she married Michael Brown, former television anchorman and award-winning documentarian of Dust to Dust, and returned to Ft. Worth. Brown continued to work as a model until becoming pregnant with their children; Rachel and Ryan (her first pseudonym).
