Every year thereafter until her death, Andrews published a new novel, each publication earning Andrews larger advances and a growing popular readership.
The novel, published in 1979, was an instant popular success, reaching the top of the bestseller lists in only two weeks.
In later interviews, Andrews claims to have made the necessary revisions in a single night. The novel was returned with the suggestion that she "spice up" and expand the story. In 1975, Andrews completed a manuscript for a novel she called Flowers in the Attic. Her first novel, titled Gods of Green Mountain, was a science fiction effort that remained unpublished during her lifetime but was released as an e-book in 2004. Later in life, Andrews turned to writing. However, having always shown promise as an artist, she was able to complete a four-year correspondence course from her home and soon became a successful commercial artist, illustrator, and portrait painter, using her art commissions to support the family after her father's death in 1957. The subsequent surgery to correct these injuries resulted in Andrews' suffering from crippling arthritis that required her to use crutches and a wheelchair for much of her life. As a teenager, Andrews suffered a fall from a school stairwell, resulting in severe back injuries. Andrews grew up attending Southern Baptist and Methodist churches. 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.Īndrews was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the youngest child and only daughter of Lillian Lilnora (Parker), a telephone operator, and William Henry Andrews, a tool-and-die maker. 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 were successful enough that following Andrews's death, her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to continue to write novels to be published under her name.
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. Andrews, was an American novelist.Īndrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a rags-to-riches story). Cleo Virginia Andrews (J– December 19, 1986), better known as V.
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