Baumgarten, Sylvia Rosen, 1933-

Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten was born November 12, 1933 in Toronto, Canada, and raised near Springfield, Massachusetts. She was graduated from Brown in 1955. In the early 1980s she began writing historical romances. With the exception of Forever Wild all of her books are set in sixteenth and seventeenth century France. In 1982 and 1983, writing under the pen name Ena Halliday, her three first novels, Marielle, Lysette and Delphine were published by Tapestry Books. She then moved to Warner's Popular Library and published Dreams So Fleeting, Forever Wild, and Stolen Spring under the pen name Louisa Rawlings. In 1986 she was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion Award for Best Historical Romance.