Paula Schwartz wrote and published more than two dozen Regency romances, writing as Elizabeth Mansfield. Under various pseudonyms, she also wrote an American immigrant family saga,┬аA Morning Moon┬а(as Paula Reibel), and two American history romances,┬аTo Spite the Devil┬а(as Paula Jonas) and┬аRachelтАЩs Passage┬а(as Paula Reid). Paula Schwartz was born in the Bronx and went to Hunter College. She started teaching drama and English as a junior high school teacher, then a high school teacher, and finally a college teacher. She was married and had a son and a daughter. She wrote plays and humor pieces before starting her career as a novelist, and shortly thereafter, in 1973, she began writing full time.
┬аPaula Schwartz died in December 2003. An interview with the author from 2001 is posted on the All About Romance website at www.likesbooks.com/mansfield.