V. C. Andrews, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

V. C. Andrews

novelist

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1986

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 often between siblings), and sometimes include a rags-to-riches story.
Her best-known novel is the bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there by their mother. Her novels were so successful that after her death her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to write more stories to 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.Her novels have been translated into Czech, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.