Michael Fain
Born: 1937 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: Judith Michael - when writing with his wife, Judith Barnard. Connection to Illinois: Fain was born and grew up in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago. Biography: Following college, Michael Fain worked for over twenty years as an optical and mechanical engineer in high-tech companies like NASA in the US and was president of an electronics company in Canada, before returning to live in Chicago. In 1979, he and his wife Judith Barnard, under the pen name “Judith Michael,” authored major magazine articles and eleven best-selling novels which have been translated into forty languages. Michael Fain has been a photographer for over sixty years, and his work reflects the changes in his own life and in the technological aspects of photography. Through those years his photographs have appeared in newspapers, popular magazines and scientific journals. His works appear in over fifty private collections.
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Selected Titles
| A certain smile ISBN: 1423357728 OCLC: 209658839 Brilliance Audio, Grand Haven, MI : [2008], ℗1999. A clothing designer and widowed mother travels to China where she finds love with the owner of construction company, only to have their love tested by an intrusive government, corrupt businessmen, and his wildly ambitious son. |
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A ruling passion ISBN: 0671899589 OCLC: 422853201 Simon & Schuster, New York : ©1990. A socialite-reporter and her network-owning boss rekindle an old romance, but when she starts investigating his jealous ex-wife's TV ministry, dangerous passions stir. |
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Inheritance ISBN: 0671899554 OCLC: 19081376 Pocket Books, New York : 1989, ©1988. An eccentric patriarch befriends a young woman with a police record and leaves her a good part of his fortune, but his family is determined she will not have it. |
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Pot of gold : ISBN: 0671707043 OCLC: 28334333 Poseidon Press, New York : ©1993. In this sensational new novel, Judith Michael takes one of our most universal fantasies and spins it into glorious, spellbinding reality. Claire Goddard is thirty-four years old, of modest means and looks. She has raised her teenage daughter, Emma, by herself, working as a designer, but without the confidence or means to fully realize her talent. Her only indulgence, once a week, is buying a lottery ticket. Then, one week, she wins sixty million dollars. Overnight everything changes. She quits her job, indulges in the shopping spree of a lifetime - new house, new clothes, new car, new hairstyle and makeup - and then treats herself and Emma to a celebratory cruise in Alaska. There they meet Quentin and Brix Eiger. Handsome, glamorous, a wealthy entrepreneur, Quentin sweeps Claire into his fast-lane fashionable world, while his temperamental son, Brix, engages Emma in her first love affair. |
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Private affairs ISBN: 0671619683 OCLC: 15273066 Pocket Books, New York : 1987, ©1986. Honor, love and corruption provide the themes for the new novel by the husband/wife team who wrote the popular Deceptions and Possessions. On their wedding day, Elizabeth and Matt Lovell are forced to |
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Sleeping beauty ISBN: 0671899597 OCLC: 33134433 Pocket Books, New York : ©1990 Back in her hometown for her grandfather's funeral, high-powered divorce lawyer Anne Garnett resolves a conflict with her Uncle Vincent begun twenty-four years earlier when both vied for control of the family empire. |