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V.C. Andrews Biography

Cleo Virginia Andrews was born on June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was one of three children born to William Henry Andrews, a career Navy man who later opened a tool and die shop, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. Andrews' family (including brothers, Bill Jr. and Gene) eventually moved to Rochester, New York, but later returned to Portsmouth. Andrews was a very intelligent child who skipped both the third and sixth grade. She also read everything she could get her hands on. She read the entire Bible at seven-years-old and claimed she had read every book in the school library. By 12 she had read most of the classics. While she had begun to write at an early age, her real passion was art. When she was only seven she was sent to junior college art classes. When she was in high school Virginia fell down a staircase and injured hip, an accident that would live with her forever. The fall resulted in the development of bone spurs, which in turn caused arthritis. She had surgery but it was not successful and caused even more prob

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V. C. Andrews

American novelist (1923–1986)

Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels. While her novels are not classified by her publisher as Young Adult, their young protagonists have made them popular among teenagers for decades. After her death in 1986, a ghostwriter who was initially hired to complete two unfinished works has continued to publish books under her name.

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Andrews's novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a rags-to-riches story). Her best-known novel is the bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there by their mother.

Her novels were successful enough that following Andrews's death, he

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Virginia Cleo Andrews was born on June 6, 1923, in Portsmouth, Virginia, where she later attended high school and then studied art. Crippled by rheumatoid arthritis as a young woman, she had to use crutches and later a wheelchair. Andrews never married and always lived with her mother. Secretive about the details of her life, particularly her age, Andrews related little about her early adult years. She resided in Manchester, Missouri, and Apache Junction, Arizona, but had returned to Portsmouth by the time she began earning professional acclaim late in the 1970s. Later she moved to Virginia Beach. Andrews worked as a portraitist, commercial artist, and fashion illustrator, but she eventually turned to writing. Often typing in bed or propped up in a body brace, she wrote thirty to forty pages a night for years. Her only publications before 1979 were pieces for confession magazines.

Andrews eventually completed a 290,000-word novel, The Obsessed. Retitling the work Flowers in the Attic, she shortened it to ninety-eight pages but was again told to revise it. As Andrews later rec