Barbara Taylor Bradford (May 10, 1933)
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Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE (born 10 May 1933) is an English novelist. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and she has so far written 24 bestselling novels. Bradford was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire as the only child of Freda and Winston Taylor. She grew up in the Leeds suburb of Armley and after Town Street Church of England School (where she was in the same class as Alan Bennett) and Northcote School for Girls she worked in the typing pool at the Yorkshire Evening Post before going into journalism. By the age of twenty she was the fashion editor of Woman's Own Magazine and an editor and columnist on Fleet Street for the London Evening News.
Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by 23 others - all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Bradford's books have sold more than 81 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Ten of her books have been made into television mini-series and television movies.
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First Book - A Woman of Substance (1979)
Last Book - Breaking the Rules (2009)
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Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE (born 10 May 1933) is an English novelist. Her debut novel,

