Best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies aged 91
(VOVWORLD) - Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling author of novels including “A Woman of Substance,” has died aged 91, her publisher has confirmed.
 Barbara Taylor Bradford, February 10, 2015. (Source: Gettyimage) |
Described as “the grande dame of blockbusters”, Taylor Bradford published her 40th novel in 2023, the third in her Victorian family saga House of Falconer series. Cumulative sales of her books across her lifetime reached more than 91m copies, and were published in more than 40 languages and in 90 countries.
With titles like "Breaking the Rules" and "Act of Will," she specialized in stories of women fighting for love and power in a man's world.
Starting with "A Woman of Substance," published in 1979, Bradford averaged nearly a book a year as one of the world's most popular and wealthiest writers, her net worth estimated at more than 200 million USD and her fame so high that her image appeared on a postage stamp in 1999. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II awarded her an OBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).