Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Barbara Taylor Bradford (born May 5, 1933) is an English novelist.

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 worked in the typing pool at the Yorkshire Evening Post before going into journalism. By the age of twenty she was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by 20 others as well as being made into a TV movie.

Her novel Emma's Secret, reached No. 2 in the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. Her books have sold more than seventy million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten of her books have been made into miniseries and television movies, making her the No. 1 best-selling women's author of the last 25 years.

She lives in New York City with her husband, of 43 years, television producer Robert Bradford.

It has been reported that she is working on creating a new soap opera for the U.S. market with longtime soap writer Millee Taggart.

[edit] Novels by Barbara Taylor Bradford

[edit] The Emma Harte Saga

• A Woman of Substance (1979)
• Hold the Dream (1985)
• To be the Best (1988)
• Emma's Secret (2003)
• Unexpected Blessings (2005)
• Just Rewards (2005)

[edit] Others

• Voice of the Heart (1983)
• Act of Will (1986)
• The Woman in His Life (1990)
• Remember (1991)
• Angel (1993)
• Everything to Gain (1994)
• Dangerous to Know (1995)
• Love in Another Town (1995)
• Her Own Rules (1996)
• A Secret Affair (1996)
• Power of a Woman (1997)
• A Sudden Change of Heart (1999)
• Where you Belong (2000)
• The Triumph of Katie Byrne (2001)
• Three Weeks in Paris (February 2002)