Talk:Rosemary Harris (writer)

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WorldCat conflates at least two distinct authors named Rosemary Harris.[1] (See the first four and the sixth "Most widely held works by Rosemary Harris", first published 2008 to 2011. The author is a younger woman born in Brooklyn NY.)

The U.S. LCCatalog does not conflate that younger R.H. with ours. I don't know that it has adequately identified a single writer, but I have used it as a source to expand the list of books by six including the five earliest in section "Other". All six are 216 to 248pp. Some WorldCat library records place them in genres "romance suspense novel" (5?) and "love stories" (1?).

Therefore I have added "Romance and suspense novels" to the {infobox writer} genre. But I have not revised the lead or the categories to make this R.H. the author of romance/suspense novels for adults. And I don't know that it's true.

--P64 (talk) 04:31, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the clean-up tag - the article is perfectly straightforward and names only the British novelist's works. The disclaimer about the two article-less writers at the top of the page is surely sufficient.

Yes and yes, with the warning about the WorldCat page for her/them linked in the footer. -P64

The romance/suspense novels were first published by Faber at the same time as they published the children's books; obviously they would not have had two authors with the same name in their stable at once.

I don't know any adult books listed here to attest that they are romance/suspense novels for the infobox Genres. ... But here is one library catalog subject headings (LCSH) "Romantic suspense novels" for A wicked pack of cards, 1969.[2] That is enough for me. --P64 (talk) 19:15, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is not uncommon for major children's writers to write adult books as well - take Joan Aiken and Peter Dickinson, for example. Robina Fox (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The romance/suspense novels referenced above are not listed here. They are the recent works of Rosemary Simari Harris[3] --younger, American, and wiki-less (example). Now I see that the national libraries of U.S. and Germany separately need to sort this out for they separately conflate RSH with two different Rosemarys (the German DNB, with our Rosemary Jeanne Harris[4]). The WorldCat page linked in this article footer lists at least some works of all three. --P64 (talk) 18:52, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]