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Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63.
Andrews' novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of consensual incest, most oftenbetween siblings), and they often include a rags-to-riches story. Her best-known novel is the infamous bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children locked in the attic of a wealthy Virginia family by their estranged religious grandmother for over three years.
Her novels were so successful that, after her death, her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to write more storiesto be published under her name. In assessing a deficiency in her estate tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service argued (successfully) that Virginia Andrews's name was a valuable commercial asset, the value of which should be included in her gross estate.[1]
Her novels have been translated into Czech, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian,Swedish, Portuguese and Hebrew and can be compared to those of Susan Hill or Gwen Hunter, and her writing technique is clearly influenced by the style of Shirley Jackson.[citation needed]
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1 Life
2 Structure
3 Novels
3.1 The Dollanganger series
3.2 Stand alone works
3.3 The Casteel series
3.4 The Cutler series
3.5 The Landry series
3.6 The Logan series
3.7 The Orphansseries
3.8 The Wildflowers series
3.9 The Hudson series
3.10 The Shooting Stars series
3.11 The DeBeers series
3.12 The Broken Wing series
3.13 The Gemini series
3.14 The Shadows series
3.15 Early Spring series
3.16 Secrets Series
3.17 Delia Series
3.18 Heavenstone Series
3.19 Short stories (ghost-written by Neiderman, inspired by Andrews' artwork)
3.20 Vampire Series
3.21 StormsSeries
3.22 Paranormal Series
3.23 Forbidden Sister Series
4 References
5 External links
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Andrews was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the youngest child and only daughter of the Andrews family. As a teenager, Andrews suffered a fall from a school stairwell, resulting in severe back injuries. The subsequent surgery to correct these injuries resulted in Andrews’s suffering from cripplingarthritis that required her to use crutches and a wheelchair for much of her life. However, Andrews, who had always shown promise as an artist, was able to complete a four-year correspondence course from her home and soon became a successful commercial artist, illustrator, and portrait painter.
Later in life, Andrews turned to writing. Her first novel, titled Gods of Green Mountain, was ascience fiction effort that remained unpublished during her lifetime but was released as an e-book in 2004. In 1975, Andrews completed a manuscript for a novel she called The Obsessed. The novel was returned with the suggestion that she "spice up" and expand the story. In later interviews, Andrews claims to have made the necessary revisions in a single night, re-submitting the changes as Flowers in theAttic. The novel, published in 1979, was an instant popular success, reaching the top of the bestseller lists in only two weeks. Every year thereafter until her death, Andrews published a new novel, each publication earning Andrews larger advances and a growing popular readership.
"I think I tell a whopping good story. And I don't drift away from it a great deal into descriptive material", shestated in Faces of Fear in 1985. "When I read, if a book doesn't hold my interest about what's going to happen next, I put it down and don't finish it. So I'm not going to let anybody put one of my books down and not finish it. My stuff is a very fast read."
Andrews died of breast cancer on December 19, 1986, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.[2] After her death, her family hired a ghost writer, Andrew...