International Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has died peacefully at her home on the 24th of November at the age of 91. Barbara’s novels made her one of the most successful fiction writers in the world, with more than 91 million copies of her 40 books sold to date.
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00:00International best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has died peacefully at her home on
00:06the 24th of November at the age of 91. Barbara's novels made her one of the most successful fiction
00:12writers in the world, with more than 91 million copies of her 40 books sold to date. Born and
00:18raised in Leeds, she started writing fiction aged 7 and left school aged 15 for the typing pool at
00:24the Yorkshire Evening Post, where she became a reporter and the paper's first female editor
00:28aged 18. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, in 1979 stayed on the New York Times bestseller list
00:35for 43 weeks. She married Hollywood film and television producer Robert Bradford in 1963,
00:41with Robert producing 10 of her books into TV dramas. One of the most notable was A Woman of
00:47Substance, which became a global hit, securing two Emmy Award nominations. A storyteller of
00:52substance, Barbara was greatly admired, much loved and would be dearly missed by her family,
00:57friends and fans around the world.