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V. C. Andrews
Built-in	Cleo Virginia Andrews (1923-06-06)June 6, 1923 Portsmouth, Virginia, U.South.
Died	December 19, 1986(1986-12-nineteen) (anile 63) Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.Due south.
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Gothic horror Family saga
Website
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Cleo Virginia Andrews (June vi, 1923 – December 19, 1986), improve known as Five. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.

Profile [edit]

Andrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family unit saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes include a rags-to-riches story). Her best-known novel is the bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of 4 children smuggled into the cranium of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there past their mother.

Her novels were successful enough that following Andrews's death, her manor hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to continue to write novels to be published under her name.^[1] In assessing a deficiency in her estate tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service argued (successfully) that Virginia Andrews's proper noun was a valuable commercial asset, the value of which should be included in her gross estate.^[ii]

Her novels take been translated into Czech, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.

Life [edit]

Andrews was built-in in Portsmouth, Virginia, the youngest kid and only daughter of Lillian Lilnora (Parker), a phone operator, and William Henry Andrews, a tool-and-die maker.^[3] She had two older brothers, William Jr. and Eugene. Andrews grew up attending Southern Baptist and Methodist churches.^[4] 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'southward suffering from crippling arthritis that required her to use crutches and a wheelchair for much of her life.^[one] Nevertheless, Andrews, who had always shown hope as an artist, was able to complete a four-yr correspondence course from her home and soon became a successful commercial creative person, illustrator, and portrait painter, using her art commissions to support the family later her male parent'south death in 1957.^[five]

After in life, Andrews turned to writing. Her first novel, titled Gods of Light-green Mount, was a scientific discipline fiction effort that remained unpublished during her lifetime but was released as an e-book in 2004.^[6] In 1975, Andrews completed a manuscript for a novel she called Flowers in the Cranium. "I wrote it in 2 weeks," Andrews said.^[7] The novel was returned with the proffer that she "spice upward" and expand the story. In afterward interviews, Andrews claims to have made the necessary revisions in a single dark. The novel, published in 1979, was an instant popular success, reaching the top of the bestseller lists in merely ii weeks. Every yr thereafter until her decease, Andrews published a new novel, each publication earning Andrews larger advances and a growing popular readership.

"I call up I tell a whopping good story. And I don't drift away from it a swell deal into descriptive cloth," she stated in Faces of Fear in 1985. "When I read, if a book doesn't hold my involvement in what's going to happen next, I put it downwardly and don't finish it. So I'm not going to permit anybody put 1 of my books down and not terminate information technology. My stuff is a very fast read." In an interview for Twilight Magazine in 1983, Andrews was questioned about the critics' response to her work. She answered, "I don't care what the critics say. I used to, until I found out that most critics are would-exist writers who are merely jealous because I'k getting published and they aren't. I also don't call back that anybody cares about what they say. Nor should they intendance."^[8]

Andrews died of breast cancer on December 19, 1986, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[9] Afterward her death, her family hired a ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, to end the manuscripts she had started. He would complete the next two novels, Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts, and they were published soon later. These two novels are considered the terminal to bear the "V.C. Andrews" proper noun and to be nearly completely written by Andrews herself.

Fiction [edit]

Past V.C. Andrews and Andrew Neiderman [edit]

The Dollanganger serial [edit]

Andrews's first series of novels was published between 1979^[one] and 1986.

Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind focus on the children: Chris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie, who, after losing their begetter in an accident, are imprisoned in an cranium by their mother and grandmother; Flowers in the Attic tells of their incarceration, the death of one child, and subsequent escape of the other three,^[1] with Petals on the Wind picking up straight after. With If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday, the story also includes Cathy'southward children, Jory and Bart, afterward a mysterious woman and her butler movement in next door, gradually turning Bart confronting his parents. Garden of Shadows is a prequel which tells the grandparents' story, and also how the parents became involved.

• Flowers in the Cranium (1979)
• Petals on the Wind (1980)
• If There Be Thorns (1981)
• Seeds of Yesterday (1984)
• Garden of Shadows (1986) (by V. C. Andrews and Andrew Neiderman)

Audrina [edit]

• My Sweet Audrina (1982) past Virginia Andrews
• Whitefern (2016) by Andrew Neiderman

The Casteel series [edit]

The five novels making up the last known series started past Andrews were published betwixt 1985 and 1990. Only the first two appeared before her death. This serial traces the lives of a troubled West Virginia family, originally from the viewpoint of Sky, a immature daughter whose mother died during childbirth and has a love/detest relationship with her male parent, and, later, to Heaven's daughter, Annie, with the fifth and final novel centering on Leigh, her mother.

• Heaven (1985)
• Dark Affections (1986)
• Fallen Hearts (1988) (started by Andrews, finished by Neiderman)
• Gates of Paradise (1989) (Neiderman)
• Spider web of Dreams (1990) (Neiderman)

By Andrew Neiderman [edit]

The Cutler serial [edit]

This series was written entirely by Neiderman. This covers about 80 years of the history of the Cutler family unit. The start three books, Dawn, Secrets of the Forenoon, and Twilight'due south Child, follow the grapheme of Dawn from her childhood to her wedlock and subsequent return to the Cutler mansion. Midnight Whispers focuses on Dawn's daughter Christie. Darkest 60 minutes, the last volume in the series, goes back in time to focus on Dawn's footstep-grandmother, Lillian.

• Dawn (1990)
• Secrets of the Morning (1991)
• Twilight's Child (1992)
• Midnight Whispers (1992)
• Darkest Hour (1993)

The Landry series [edit]

This series of novels by Andrew Neiderman focuses on the Landry family unit; Cherry-red Landry, her daughter Pearl, and Ruby's mother Gabrielle (referred to as Gabriel in Tarnished Gold). The novels, set in the Louisiana bayou, were published betwixt 1994 and 1996.

• Blood-red (1994)
• Pearl in the Mist (1994)
• All That Glitters (1995)
• Subconscious Jewel (1995)
• Tarnished Gilt (1996)

The Logan series [edit]

The series by Andrew Neiderman follows Melody Logan from a West Virginia trailer park to Cape Cod as she helps her relatives bargain with the problems they'd rather coffin. Tune stars as the main graphic symbol in Melody, Center Song, and Unfinished Symphony. The fourth book, Music in the Night, tells the tale of Melody'due south cousin, Laura, who died earlier the events of the commencement volume. The fifth book, Olivia, serves as a prequel, with the main character being Melody'south bully-aunt Olivia.

• Melody (1996)
• Heart Song (1997)
• Unfinished Symphony (1997)
• Music in the Night (1998)
• Olivia (1999)

The Orphans series [edit]

The Orphans series by Andrew Neiderman focuses on the lives of four teenage orphans, Janet (Butterfly), Crystal, Brooke, and Raven, who are sent to the Lakewood Firm foster home.

• Butterfly (1998)
• Crystal (1998)
• Brooke (1998)
• Raven (1998)
• Runaways (1998)
• Orphans (2000) (motorbus)

The Wildflowers series [edit]

The Wildflowers series past Andrew Neiderman is nigh a group of girls in court-ordered group therapy and why they were ordered to attend. The first four serve every bit prequels to the therapy sessions while the last one deals with what happened after. The 6th volume is the collection of the first four stories in the series.

• Misty (1999)
• Star (1999)
• Jade (1999)
• True cat (1999)
• Into the Garden (1999)
• The Wildflowers (2001) (omnibus)

The Hudson series [edit]

The Hudson series past Andrew Neiderman tells the story of Rain Arnold Hudson, a kid conceived in an interracial thing between a black man and a wealthy white woman. Her story is told in Rain, Lightning Strikes, and Eye of the Storm. The 4th volume, The End of the Rainbow, is the story of her daughter Summer. The serial had ended with only four books until a prequel, titled Gathering Clouds, was appear. The book was released alongside the flick accommodation of Pelting and revealed the story of Rain'southward birth mother.

• Rain (2000)
• Lightning Strikes (2000)
• Eye of the Storm (2000)
• The Finish of the Rainbow (2001)
• Gathering Clouds (2007, independent within the Rain movie DVD, released on May 29, 2007)

The Shooting Stars serial [edit]

The Shooting Stars series by Andrew Neiderman tells the stories of iv girls, each with a unlike background, upbringing, and talent. The start 4 books each focus on ane of the girls, Cinnamon, an actress who deals with her domineering grandmother, Ice, a vocalist whose mother wishes she never had a daughter, Rose, a dancer who deals with the ramifications of her father'southward suicide, and Dearest, a violinist whose gramps sees sin in everything. The final book is Falling Stars, told from Honey's bespeak of view, in which the 4 girls meet at the Senetsky School for the Arts in New York where they attempt to uncover the secrets of their instructor, Madame Senetsky.

• Cinnamon (2001)
• Ice (2001)
• Rose (2001)
• Dearest (2001)
• Falling Stars (2001)
• Shooting Stars (2002) (passenger vehicle)

The DeBeers series [edit]

The DeBeers family series by Andrew Neiderman is the story of Willow DeBeers, who learns from her father's diary that her real mother had been a patient of her father's. The first 2 books, Willow and Wicked Forest comprehend her meeting with her mother and one-half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida, her marriage which ends on a sour note, and the birth of her daughter Hannah, who is the master grapheme in Twisted Roots. Into the Woods is the commencement prequel to the serial about Grace, Willow's female parent, and what led to her existence admitted to the infirmary. Hidden Leaves and Dark Seed are both told from the perspective of Willow'due south father, Claude, and tell how he met Grace and how Willow was born. Some novels in the DeBeers series feature letters from characters from other Five.C. Andrews novels, such equally Ruby Landry and Annie Stonewall.

• Willow (2002)
• Wicked Forest (2002)
• Twisted Roots (2002)
• Into the Woods (2003)
• Hidden Leaves (2003)
• Dark Seed (2001) (an e-book included with Hidden Leaves)

The Broken Wings series [edit]

The Broken Wing series by Andrew Neiderman is about iii juvenile delinquents, Robin Taylor, Teal Sommers, and Phoebe Elder, who each act out for various reasons. They are sent to Dr. Foreman'south School for Girls, run by the calumniating Dr. Foreman, in an isolated part of the Southwest.

• Cleaved Wings (2003)
• Midnight Flying (2003)

The Gemini series [edit]

The Gemini series follows Celeste, a young girl who is forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother Noble by her New Age fanatic mother. Celeste's story is followed in Celeste and Black Cat. The third book, Child of Darkness, is about Celeste's daughter Babe Celeste.

• Celeste (2004)
• Black Cat (2004)
• Kid of Darkness (2005)

The Shadows series [edit]

The Shadows serial is most a teenage daughter named April Taylor, who is short, not overly talented or popular, and fat. The offset book focuses on April's human relationship with her athletic older sister Brenda and the deaths of their parents. The second book focuses on April'due south adventures after moving in with a foster family in California.

• April Shadows (2005)
• Daughter in the Shadows (2006)

The Early Leap series [edit]

The only novel from "The V. C. Andrews Trust", through which Neiderman has written the novels that followed Andrews's death, to feature a footling daughter throughout the book. Jordan March, unlike every other V.C. Andrews main character, all of whom are 12 or xvi, starts out equally six, then turns 7. Information technology is near a little girl who is developing as well fast.

• Cleaved Blossom (Oct 2006)
• Scattered Leaves (Feb 2007)

The Secrets series [edit]

According to Neiderman, this series will "follow the story of two small-town girls, a murder, and the attic they use and develop into something very special." Neiderman explains that the two books were slightly inspired past a true story.

• Secrets in the Attic (September 2007)
• Secrets in the Shadows (April 2008)

The Delia serial [edit]

The Delia series revolves around a young Latina girl (Delia), whose parents died in a truck accident in United mexican states and how she must now cope with fitting into her aunt's wealthy and sometimes cruel Mexican-American family.

• Delia'south Crossing (September 2008)
• Delia'southward Middle (December 2008)
• Delia's Gift (Feb 2009)

The Heavenstone serial [edit]

• Heavenstone Secrets (2009)
• Underground Whispers (March 2010)

The Kindred series [edit]

• Daughter of Darkness (2010)
• Daughter of Light (2012)

The March Family unit series [edit]

• Family Storms (2011)
• Cloudburst (2011)

The Forbidden series [edit]

• The Forbidden Sister (2013)
• The Forbidden Heart [e-book] (2013)
• Roxy's Story (2013)

The Diary series [edit]

• Christopher'southward Diary: Secrets of Foxworth (2014)
• Christopher'due south Diary: Echoes of Dollanganger (2015)
• Underground Brother (2015)

The Mirror Sisters Series [edit]

• The Mirror Sisters (2016)
• Broken Glass (2017)
• Shattered Memories (2017)

The Girls of Spindrift Series [edit]

This is a spin-off serial from Bloodshot Dreams published in e-volume form.

• Corliss (2017)
• Donna (2017)
• Mayfair (2018)
• Spindrift (2018)

The Business firm of Secrets series [edit]

• House of Secrets (2018)
• Echoes in the Walls (2018)
• Whispering Hearts (2020)

The Cranium serial [edit]

• Beneath the Attic (2019)^[10]
• Out of the Attic (2020)
• Shadows of Foxworth (2020)

The Umbrella series [edit]

• The Umbrella Lady (2021)
• Out of the Rain (2021)

The Eden series [edit]

• Eden's Children (Oct 25, 2022)

Other works [edit]

Stand-alone works by V.C. Andrews [edit]

• Gods of Green Mountain (1972), a scientific discipline fiction novel currently only available in e-book format.
• The Obsessed (2022) (excerpt only), released as office of Neiderman'due south biography of Andrews.

By Andrew Neiderman [edit]

• Into the Darkness (2012)
• Capturing Angels [e-book] (2012)
• The Unwelcomed Child (2014)
• Bloodshot Dreams (2015)
• Sage'southward Eyes (2016)
• The Silhouette Daughter (2019)
• Becoming My Sister (March 15, 2022) ^[xi]

Brusk stories (by Andrew Neiderman and inspired by Andrews's artwork) [edit]

• Cage of Honey (2001)
• The Little Psychic (2001)

Non-fiction [edit]

• The V.C. Andrews Trivia and Quiz Book (1994)
• V.C. Andrews: A Disquisitional Companion (1996)
• V.C. Andrews: A Reader'southward Checklist and Reference Guide (1999)
• 5.C. Andrews: Her Life and Books (2010)
• The Adult female Beyond the Attic: The Virginia Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman (2022)^[12]

Pic adaptations [edit]

• Flowers in the Cranium (New World Pictures, 1987) [uncredited cameo as the window-washing maid]
• Pelting (Code Black Entertainment, 2006) [novel written past Neiderman]

Television adaptations [edit]

• Flowers in the Attic (Lifetime, 2014)
• Petals on the Wind (Lifetime, 2014)
• If There Be Thorns (Lifetime, 2015)
• Seeds of Yesterday (Lifetime, 2015)
• My Sweet Audrina (Lifetime, 2016)
• Heaven (Lifetime, 2019)
• Nighttime Angel (Lifetime, 2019)
• Fallen Hearts (Lifetime, 2019)
• Gates of Paradise (Lifetime, 2019)
• Web of Dreams (Lifetime, 2019)
• Crimson (Lifetime, 2021)
• Pearl in the Mist (Lifetime, 2021)
• All That Glitters (Lifetime, 2021)
• Subconscious Jewel (Lifetime, 2021)
• Flowers In The Attic: The Origin (Lifetime, 2022)^[xiii]
• Dawn (Lifetime, TBA)^[13]
• Secrets of the Morning (Lifetime, TBA)^[13]
• Twilight'southward Kid (Lifetime, TBA)^[13]
• Midnight Whispers (Lifetime, TBA)^[13]
• Darkest Hour (Lifetime, TBA)^[xiii]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Alluvion, Alison (November 14, 2019). "'Atrocious and fabled': the madness of Flowers in the Attic". The Guardian . Retrieved November 17, 2019.
2. ^ Estate of Andrews v. U.s., 850 F.Supp.1279 (Eastward.D. Va. 1994)
3. ^ "The Consummate V.C. Andrews". Archived from the original on December 1, 2005.
4. ^ "Do WOMEN WRITE HORROR FICTION?". The Complete VCA.
5. ^ Huntley, Eastward. D. (1996). V.C. Andrews: A Disquisitional Companion. Greenwood Press. p. four. ISBN9780313294488 . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
6. ^ Andrews, V.C. (2004). Gods of Green Mountain. Simon & Schuster. ISBN9780671554583 . Retrieved October fourteen, 2015.
7. ^ Carcaterra, Lorenzo (June 1983). "V.C. Andrews & 'all those beautifully baroque little things'". The Twilight Zone Magazine. p. 28.
8. ^ Carcaterra, Lorenzo (June 1983). "V.C. Andrews & 'all those beautifully bizarre little things'". The Twilight Zone Magazine: 29. {{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
9. ^ Campbell, Edward D. C., Jr. "5. C. Andrews (1923–1986)". Encyclopedia Virginia . Retrieved August 31, 2015.
10. ^ "Book Deals: Calendar week of June eleven, 2018".
11. ^ Andrews, 5. C. (March 15, 2022). Condign My Sister. ISBN978-1982156312.
12. ^ Neiderman, Andrew (Feb 2022). The Adult female Beyond the Attic: The Five.C. Andrews Story. ISBN978-1982182632.
13. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Porter, Rick (February two, 2022). "Lifetime Nabs Rights to 'Flowers in the Cranium' Author V.C. Andrews' Total Catalog". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 2, 2022.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Her Dark Materials by Emily Bazelon, Slate mag, Dec vi, 2007
• Hughes, Sarah. 'What trashy novels taught me most life', Observer Books, 31 Jan 2021
• The Complete V.C. Andrews
• Virginia Andrews at Fantasticfiction.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

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