Joan Bramsch (February 25, 1936 – March 29, 2009), was an American entrepreneur, teacher, and romance writer.
Her published work includes six romance novels and a non-fiction book about homeschooling.Born in St.
Louis in 1936, the daughter of Melvin J.
and Margaret Schlanger, she worked as a teletype and radio operator for Delta Air Lines in 1953 and 1954.
In 1954, she married William E.
Bramsch, an engineer.
The couple had five children.A partner at Gee-Bee Specialties and a free-lance designer from 1970 through 1978, she tutored at private and public schools in St.
Louis, Missouri, from 1976 through 1982 and started a business, Liberty Communications House, in 1979.
Bramsch attended Washington University in St.
Louis, completing an associate of arts degree in 1979, a bachelor of science (B.S.) in English in 1982, and a B.S.
in communications and journalism in 1984.
She contributed to periodicals and was the newsletter editor for Romance Writers of America from 1984 through 1986.Bramsch died on March 29, 2009, in St.