Biography
The debut work of Kathleen Wradiviss attracted the close attention of readers immediately after it was published. First, it performed a real revolution in the genre of historical novel. Secondly, a book with a love plot that did not approach publishers by volume, was not in a hard cover, but in soft. And thirdly, the work contained frank erotic scenes. With the light hand "Flame and a flower" and many subsequent creations of the American writer became bestsellers.Childhood and youth
On the third day of the summer of 1939, in the city of Alexandria, located in Louisiana, Charles Wingroou and Gladis Hogg (in Maiden Cocker) was born a junior, the eighth, the child is the daughter of Katlin Erin.
Father, who was a veteran of the First World War, died when the girl was 12 years old, leaving her mother and senior sisters. Such a sad event could not affect its works, where strong, independent, volition women often became the main characters.
Thrust to writing appeared in the future celebrity, even in early childhood - she came up with all sorts of stories, telling them for the night in order to fall asleep faster. Secondary education was obtained at the local school ended in 1957.
At the age of 16, the girl met her husband on dancing. The chosen was the military, and in debt of the service, together with him, Kathleen as a couple of years settled in Japan, where he worked as a mannequin in the American modeling agency. Subsequently, a young family moved from the country of the rising sun to the capital of Kansas Topic, and then in Minnesota.
Personal life
On July 20, 1956, the grandiose change was happened in the personal life of Young Kathleen - the schoolgirl married the Junior Lieutenant of the US Air Force Ross Yujina Vudibissa. The man, in marriage with whom three children were born, gave the spouse a sonorous surname, under which she learned the whole world.By the way, it was he indirectly and pushed her beloved to the start of a professional biography. While Chet was moved from place to place, the girl greeted the book several times. But every time I challenged this case due to the fact that it was extremely slow to write from the hand. Having bought a second half as a Christmas gift of a typewriter, the celebrity subsequently assigned her to himself and seriously took up work.
Sean Alan, Dorren James and Hit Alexander, Middle Son, unfortunately, died before Mother. The senior heir and his wife, Denise, often performing the correction of the texts of the mother-in-law, appeared by Amber, Seth, Ariann and Alex. The latter went in the footsteps of the grandmother, released in April 2010, sci-fi unlocked (in Facebook, you can find fan groups with photos devoted to the work of two talented relatives).
"I wrote unlocked, I looked at the grandmother in a new way and found that we are much more like her than it seemed to me at the beginning. I regret only that she could not see how I'm trying to follow her, read my debut work and say that she thinks about it, "she said.From the Minnesota of the novelist, where she lived in a big house for 55 acres of land and walked around an avid rider, moved to Louisiana after the death of her husband in 1996.
Books
The "flame and flower" various agencies did not want to publish in a hard cover due to the volume of 600 pages and strongly recommended the author to redo it. But instead, Vudiviss decided to release a book in a soft paper cover, sent the text in Avon Books.
The editor of Nancy Coffin accidentally pulled it from the pile of unwanted letters and manuscripts, was delighted with the read and bought the rights to publish history about the adventures of the Cheser Simmons for $ 1.5 thousand, agreeing to pay 4% of the fee to pay the writer. The initial circulation of bestseller, published in 1972, was 500 thousand copies, but in 4 years increased to 2.3 million.
The work became the first love-historical novel of modernity and gave rise to a new style of writing such writings. His creator was called the main source of inspiration Many writers - Joanna Lindsay, Elizabeth Hoyt and Julia Quen. The latter noted in an interview:
"Wradiviss caused women's desire to read, giving an alternative to westerns and criminal drama. I grew up and saw my mother and grandmother enjoy novels. When I became an adult to read them myself, I felt as if I was accepted into a special nursing community of reading women. "In the future, the bibliography of the American was replenished with separate literary creations "Wolf and Golub", "Winter Rosa", "Shanna", "ash in the wind", for which she was grateful to the French representatives. In 1995, Kathleen continued the series "Birmingham Family Saga", creating "three weddings and a kiss" and "wedding at midnight" in collateral with colleagues, and a "magic kiss" and "eluding flame" - independently.
Death
Woodiliss from those authors who did not bet on the number of work issued, but on quality. Therefore, loyal fans had to wait for several years to take the new book of favorite. In some cases, Kathleen explained such a delay in personal difficulties and health problems, in others - suffering from emotional burnout and the need for rest.On July 6, 2007, the writer died in the hospital of the city of Princeton, the cause of death was the incurable disease. She found the last refuge in Karmel Covenant Church Cemetery, located in the middle of Minnesota. Soon after the death of the novelist, the light saw her last creation "at all times."
Bibliography
Birmingham Series:
- 1972 - "Flame and Flower"
- 1995 - "Kiss"
- 1996 - "After a kiss" ("Wedding at midnight")
- 2000 - "Magic Kiss"
- 1998 - "Extralling Flame"
Outside the series:
- 1974 - "Wolf and Dove"
- 1977 - "Shanna"
- 1979 - "ash in the wind"
- 1981 - "Winter Rose"
- 1984 - "Where are you, my stranger?"
- 1989 - "So great my love"
- 1992 - "Forever in your explanations"
- 1997 - "Petals on the water"
- 2002 - "Indecisive fan"
- 2007 - "At all times"