# Lynette Eason

lynette eason is an author of Christian fiction novels within the inspirational romantic suspense genre; she has won various awards for her writing and been on the ECPA and CBA bestseller lists and published nearly fifty books. == Personal life and Education == lynette eason grew up in Greenville, South Carolina where she became a Christian at age eight through the influence of her parents and the Sunday school teachers at Northgate Baptist Church. An avid reader as a child, she was influenced by many writers including "Alfred Hitchcock, Carolyn Keene, Agatha Christie, Francine Pascal...Steven King and others." As an adult she enjoyed Christian fiction by "Randilyn Collins, Dee Henderson, Shirlee McCoy, Karen Kingsbury, Robert Liparulo, Terri Blackstock and Deborah Raney"She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1989 with a B.A. in Finance and Real Estate and then graduated from Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1993 with an M.Ed.