![]() ![]() ![]() Flowers in the Attic(1979), which she wrote an early draft of in 1975, became a bestseller, although The Washington Post declared the book “deranged swill” and Andrews possibly the “worst writer I have ever read.” However, for leagues of teenage girls, Andrews became in the words of The Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers, the “Emily Brontë of the MTV generation.” Gillian Flynn, author of the 2012 crime bestseller Gone Girl, said that the mother and grandmother characters in Flowers in the Attic spawned her fascination with “wicked women It felt so new to me-these witches who seemed quite real.” Andrews, who wrote her novel in two weeks, claimed that it was not autobiographical. Andrews, she became a novelist late in life, having previously worked as a commercial artist, illustrator, and portrait painter. Andrews was born Cleo Virginia Andrews, in Portsmouth, Virginia. ![]()
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