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.

Currently, one of the richest living authors, Bradford's personal wealth has exceeded £145 million, making her one of the wealthiest women in the UK.

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.