Janet Dailey
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (born May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa , † December 14, 2013 in Branson , Missouri ) was an American writer . Her romance and family novels have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than 325 million copies worldwide by the time of her death. Your novel Foxfire Light served as a template for a feature film.
In 1979 Dailey published Touch the Wind for the first time, a lengthy love and family novel in book form. Until then, it was common for such literature to be published only in magazines or as a booklet . The publication made it onto The New York Times bestseller list . Since 1993, Janet Dailey has donated the $ 5,000 Janet Dailey Award annually .
Plagiarism cases
Although Dailey was very successful as a writer, she confessed to repeated copying of Nora Roberts' works in 1997 . This came out when a reader compared Roberts's Sweet Revenge and Dailey's Notorious . The two authors reached an agreement and Dailey paid an undisclosed sum that was donated by Nora Roberts.
Web links
- Literature by and about Janet Dailey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Janet Dailey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Janet Dailey's website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dailey, Janet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dailey, Janet Anne Haradon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Storm Lake, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2013 |
| Place of death | Branson , Missouri |