Leonora Burton was born in South Wales. After school in England, she got a job in London in the film industry in Soho. This led to New York and a job with Warner Brothers which owned a failing magazine,Coronet for which she became publisher .Under the pen name,Leonora Blythe she published a number of Regency romances. Her latest book, Lament of an Expat, written under her real name, Leonora Burton, chronicles her adventures in the U.K. and America. She lives with her husband in the Hudson Valley.