Belva Plain
Belva Plain (October 9, 1915 – October 12, 2010) was a best-selling American author of mainstream women's fiction. She was born in New York City, New York.[1]
Biography
Belva Plain was a third-generation Jewish American who was raised in New York City.[2] She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in history[2]. Plain lived in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey.[3]
Before breaking into publishing, Belva Plain wrote short stories for magazines while raising her three children. Her first novel, Evergreen, was published in 1978. It topped the New York Times bestseller list for 41 weeks and was made into a TV miniseries.[4] As of 2004, there were over 25 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 23 languages.[4] Plain did not own a computer, and wrote all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad.[2]
Plain was married to her husband, Irving Plain, for over forty years. He died in 1982.
Bibliography
Werner Family Saga
- Evergreen (1978)
- Golden Cup (1986)
- Tapestry (1988)
- Harvest (1990)
Novels
- Random Winds (1980)
- Eden Burning (1982)
- Crescent City (1984)
- Blessings (1989)
- Treasures (1992)
- Whispers (1993)
- Daybreak (1994)
- The Carousel (1995)
- Promises (1996)
- Secrecy (1997)
- Homecoming (1997)
- Legacy of Silence (1998)
- Fortune's Hand (1999)
- After the Fire (2000)
- Looking Back (2001)
- Her Father's House (2002)
- The Sight of the Stars (2003)
- Crossroads (2004)
References
- ^ http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/belva_plain_acclaimed_nj_autho.html
- ^ a b c "A Conversation With Belva Plain". Belva Plain Official Website. Retrieved 2007-01-30.
- ^ Horner, Shirley. "ABOUT BOOKS", The New York Times, October 3, 1993]. Accessed December 19, 2007. "Previous recipients of the award, which has come to be known as the Michael, include Mary Higgins Clark of Saddle River, Belva Plain of Short Hills, Wende and Harry Devlin of Mountainside, the Nobel laureate Dr. Arno Penzias of Highland Park and Gay Talese of Ocean City."
- ^ a b "Author Bio". Belva Plain Official Website. 2004. Retrieved 2007-01-30.