Shirlee

Shirlee Busbee is an American writer of romance novels since 1977. With over nine million copies of her books in print, she is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in writing, including the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and Affaire de Coeur's Silver and Bronze Pen Awards.

Shirlee Emmons (1923 – 2010) was an American classical soprano, voice teacher, and author on vocal pedagogy. She began her career in the early 1940s as a concert soprano, eventually becoming one of the original singers in the Robert Shaw Chorale in 1948. She branched out into opera in the 1950s; performing mainly with regional companies in the United States. She achieved several honours as a performer, including winning the Marian Anderson Award in 1953 and an Obie Award in 1956.

Shirlee Smith is a children's advocate, an opinion columnist and author, and currently the producer and host of her own television show, "Talk About Parenting with Shirlee Smith", which debuted in 1994. Smith first gained the public's attention when her social issues column debuted in the Pasadena Star News in the late 1980s.