Barbara Taylor Bradford Dies: ‘A Woman Of Substance’ Author Was 91
deadline.comBarbara Taylor Bradford, author of A Woman of Substance, which was adapted into a hugely successful Channel 4 drama series, has died aged 91.
Taylor Bradford died yesterday after a short illness. Bradford’s publisher Harper Collins confirmed the news this morning. The publisher’s CEO Charlie Redmayne described her as a “truly exceptional writer whose first book, the international bestseller A Woman of Substance, changed the lives of so many who read it – and still does to this day.” Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds in 1933, moving to London in her twenties where she first started writing.
In 1979, she published her rags-to-riches debut A Woman of Substance about protagonist Emma Harte and the retail empire created by her and her family.
The book sold 30 million copies worldwide and made a star of Taylor Bradford, who went on to write six more in the series. A Woman of Substance was made into a Channel 4 drama series in 1984 starring Jenny Seagrove.
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