- Belva Plain
Belva Plain (born 1919 in
New York City ,New York ) is a best-selling Americanauthor of mainstream women's fiction.Biography
Belva Plain is a third-generation Jewish American who was raised in
New York City . cite web
title = A Conversation With Belva Plain
publisher = Belva Plain Official Website
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html
accessdate = 2007-01-30 ] She graduated fromBarnard College with a degree inhistory and has lived in the Short Hills section ofMillburn, New Jersey . [Horner, Shirley. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DD1031F930A35753C1A965958260 "ABOUT BOOKS"] , "The New York Times ",October 3 ,1993 ] . AccessedDecember 19 ,2007 . "Previous recipients of the award, which has come to be known as the Michael, include Mary Higgins Clark of Saddle River, Belva Plain of Short Hills, Wende and Harry Devlin of Mountainside, the Nobel laureate Dr. Arno Penzias of Highland Park and Gay Talese of Ocean City."]Before breaking into publishing, Belva Plain wrote short stories for magazines while raising her three children. Her first novel, "Evergreen", was published in
1979 . It topped the "New York Times" bestseller list for 41 weeks and was made into a TV miniseries.cite web
title = Author Bio
publisher = Belva Plain Official Website
date = 2004
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html
accessdate = 2007-01-30 ] As of 2004, there were over 25 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 23 languages. Plain does not own a computer, and writes all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad.Plain was married to her husband, Irving Plain, for over forty years. He died in 1982.
Bibliography
Werner Family Saga
*"Evergreen" (1978)
*"Golden Cup" (1986)
*"Tapestry" (1988)
*"Harvest" (1990)Novels
*"Random Winds" (1980)
*"Eden Burning" (1982)
*"Crescent City" (1984)
*"Blessings" (1989)
*"Treasures" (1992)
*"Whispers" (1993)
*"Daybreak" (1994)
*"The Carousel" (1995)
*"Promises" (1996)
*"Secrecy" (1997)
*"Homecoming" (1997)
*"Legacy of Silence" (1998)
*"Fortune's Hand" (1999)
*"After the Fire" (2000)
*"Looking Back" (2001)
*"Her Father's House" (2002)
*"The Sight of the Stars" (2003)
*"Crossroads" (to be published late 2008)References
External links
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/ Belva Plain Official Website]
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