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Johanna Moran

Johanna Moran

Johanna Moran Biography

Johanna Moran had been writing full time for fifteen years when The Wives of Henry Oades sold to Random House in 2008.

Moran was a National Airlines and Pan Am flight attendant for seventeen years. She retired at thirty-six and went back to school, graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.

She soon finished two novels and started a third – The Wives of Henry Oades.

She lives on the west coast of Florida with her husband, John Moran.

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