A Woman of Substance writer Barbara Taylor Bradford dies at 91 – The Tribune

Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with A Woman of Substance, and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies, has died. She was 91. Bradford died Sunday at her home in New York City, a spokesperson said Monday.

Starting with A Woman of Substance, published in 1979, Bradford averaged nearly a book a year as one of the world’s most popular and wealthiest writers, her net worth estimated at more than $200 million and her fame so high that her image appeared on a postage stamp in 1999.