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ANDREWS, V(irginia) C(leo) ?-1986
Source: Contemporary Authors, Volume 121, Gale Research Company (Detroit, MI, ©1987). OBITUARY NOTICE - See index for CA sketch: Born June 6 in Portsmouth, Va.; died of cancer, December 19, 1986, in Virginia Beach, Va.; buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth, Va. Artist and author of novels and short stories. Andrews was the author of seven gothic novels whose phenomenal commercial success reportedly made her the fastest-selling author in America. All originally published as paperbacks by Pocket Books, her tales of terror and suspense have sold more than thirty million copies and are particularly attractive to adolescents. Flowers in the Attic, the 1979 book that catapulted Andrews from obscurity to international fame, is the story of four children locked in an attic by their scheming mother and tortured by their sadistic grandmother. It is also her first novel to be made into a motion picture, scheduled for release in March, 1987. The six books that followed Flowers in the Attic are Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, My Sweet Audrina, Heaven, and Dark Angel. Andrews, an invalid most of her life, supported herself for years as a commerical artist and fashion illustrator before seriously pursuing a writing career. Her first literary sales were stories she sold to confession magazines. OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES: PERIODICALS
Chicago Tribune, December 22, 1986 Full text © 1987 Gale Research Company |
