Jacqueline Briskin, née Orgell (18 December 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a British-born

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specializing in

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from 1970 to 1995. Her books regularly appear on the ''

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'' bestseller's list. She was a main Selection of the

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and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide. Her husband Bert Briskin was her agent, and one of her sons is Richard Sands.

Biography

Born Jacqueline Orgell on 18 December 1927 in

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, the daughter of Marjorie and Spencer Orgell. In 1938, her family moved to the

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, and she naturalized in 1944. She attended

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and graduated in 1945. On 9 May 1948, she married Bertram Norman "Bert" Briskin, born 17 February 1922. Her husband was an oil executive, who years later became her agent. They had three children: Ralph Louis Briskin, Elizabeth Ann Briskin, and Richard Paul Briskin (alias Richard Sands). Her husband died of Alzheimer on 16 July 2004. Briskin sold her first novel in 1970, after which she published 11 other historical novels.

Bibliography

Single novels

* ''California Generation'' (1970) - about life in the tumultuous 1960s * ''After love'' (1974) * ''Decade'' (1981) * ''Everything and More'' (1983) * ''Too Much Too Soon'' (1985) * ''Dreams Are Not Enough'' (1987) - about the movie business * ''The Naked Heart'' (1989) - about World War II * ''The Other Side of Love'' (1991) - about World War II * ''The Crimson Palace'' (1995)

Van Vliet Family

# ''Rich Friends'' (1976) # ''Paloverde'' (1978) # ''The Onyx'' (1982)

References and sources

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