V.C. Andrews Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of V.C. Andrews.

V.C. Andrews Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of V.C. Andrews.
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Born Virginia Cleo Andrews in Portsmouth, Virginia, the third child and first daughter to William Henry, a tool and dye maker, and Lillian Lilnora Parker, a telephone operator. "I was brought up in a working-class environment, with a father who loved to read as much as I did. When I was seven he took me to the public library and signed me up for my first library card. He went home with two books. I went home with nine.

"Books opened doors I hadn't even realized were there. They took me up and out of myself, back into the past, forward into the future; put me on the moon, placed me in palaces, in jungles, everywhere. When finally I did reach London and Paris--I'd been there before."1

"I loved Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe ... moody books, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Thomas Hardy, books with atmosphere; Russian novels...

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