Barbara Taylor Bradford, best-selling novelist known for “A Woman of Substance,” dies at 91
Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies, has died. She was 91.
Bradford died Sunday at her home in New York City, a spokesperson said Monday. An obituary was also posted to her website.
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 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).
the obituary on her website, when Bradford was recently asked what would be on her epitaph, she replied: “She made her dreams come true.”
According to the obituary, Bradford will be laid to rest alongside her husband at Westchester Hills Cemetery, New York following a private funeral at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.
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