VC Andrews

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Virginia Cleo Andrews (born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth , Virginia , United States , † December 19, 1986 ), better known as V. C. Andrews, was an American writer . Their most tester Roman 's Flowers in the Attic (Flowers in the Attic) , in which four children three and a half years on an attic are locked. Her stories became so successful that after her death a ghostwriter was hired to continue to publish novels under her name.

Life

Andrews grew up with her two siblings in Portsmouth and Rochester. At the age of 15 she won a two-year scholarship for literature for a literary parody . In the late teens she pulled a fracture to the left leg, which she disabled and temporarily to the wheelchair bound.

After her father passed away in the 1960s, the family moved. Virginia began writing professionally in Manchester. Until her breakthrough, she wrote a number of novels and short stories. In 1972 her first work The Gods of the Green Mountain was finished, but never published.

In 1979 her work Flowers in the Attic was published in the USA, which made her a bestselling author. She had sent the manuscript for the novel to her publisher, Virginia Andrews. Still, the first print read V. C. Andrews. At the time, the publisher described this as an oversight, which could no longer be reversed. In retrospect, it was found that the publisher consciously chose the abbreviation in order not to make it clear from the outset that the author was a woman. At the time, there was a popular belief that women can only write about love and romance.

After Flowers in the Attic , numerous other novels appeared with great success, including How Blossoms in the Wind , Thorns of Fortune and Shadows of the Past . After Andrews died of breast cancer on December 19, 1986 at the age of 63, her family, along with ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman, published more books under her name, starting with Fragile Dreams . The name V. C. Andrews was protected as a registered trademark after her death because the tax office found a deficit in the tax returns. The name was now a valuable, commercial asset and could make up for the shortcoming.

Themes and motifs

The mostly five-part stories are mostly about family legends, although at the beginning it is not necessarily foreseeable whether there will actually be several volumes. Flowers of the Night was announced as a trilogy, but actually five volumes were written.

The main themes of the novels are usually family dramas, based on lies and deceit within these families, through to incestuous relationships between siblings or close relatives. The ensuing entanglements are presented in the novels in a way that creates tension and increases the expectation of the continuation.

Novels

The Foxworth saga
  • 1979: Flowers in the Attic (Flowers in the Attic)
  • 1980: Petals on the Wind
  • 1981: If there be thorns
  • 1984: Seeds of Yesterday
  • 1986: Garden of Shadows
The Casteel saga
  • 1985: Dark Waters (Heaven)
  • 1986: Black Angel (Dark Angel)
  • 1988: Broken Wings (Fallen Hearts)
  • 1989: Night over Eden (Gates of Paradise)
  • 1990: Dark Embrace (Web of dreams)
The Cutler saga
  • 1990: Fragile Dreams (Dawn)
  • 1991: Secrets in the morning
  • 1992: Twilight's child
  • 1992: Voices from the Dark (Midnight Whispers)
  • 1993: Darkest Hour
The Landry saga
  • 1994: Ruby
  • 1994: Dark Promise (Pearl in the Mist)
  • 1995: All That Glitters
  • 1995: Hidden Jewel
  • 1996: Carousel of the Night (Tarnished Gold)
The Logan saga
  • 1996: Melody
  • 1997: In the Web of Lies (Heart Song)
  • 1997: The Song of the Night (Unfinished Symphony)
  • 1998: Stronger than the Storm (Music in the Night)
  • 1999: Olivia
The orphan saga
  • 1998: Dark Butterfly (Butterfly)
  • 1998: Mistress Crystal (Crystal)
  • 1998: Mirror of Shadows (Brooke)
  • 1998: House of Tears (Raven)
  • 1998: The Orphans' Flight (Runaways)
The Wildflower Saga
  • 1999: Misty
  • 1999: Star
  • 1999: Jade
  • 1999: Cat

All four titles published together in Germany under the title Das Haus im Nebel .

  • 1999: Into the Garden
The Hudson saga
  • 2000: House of Shadows (Rain)
  • 2000: In Dark Night (Lightning Strikes)
  • 2000: Dark Dreams (Eye of the Storm)
  • 2001: The End of the Rainbow
Single novel
  • 1982: The Net in the Dark (My sweet Audriana)

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrews v. United States, 850 F.Supp. 1279 (ED Va. 1994)
personal data
SURNAME Andrews, VC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrews, Virginia Cleo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1986