The Queen of Fiction

“Character is plot,” claims internationally renowned best-selling author, Barbara Taylor Bradford. “It is what determines our destiny.” Celebrating the 30^th anniversary of her first published book, A Woman of Substance, Barbara Taylor Bradford talks love, life, and her latest New York Times best seller, Breaking the Rules with Joan Hamburg on the WOR Joan Hamburg show.
 

Born and raised in London, England, Barbara jokes that she became a self-proclaimed writer at the age of 10 years when her first published article ran in a children’s literary magazine.  Unlike many educated women still living in a man’s world, she started as a journalist in London at a young age, but put aside an enviable career to follow her heart to Los Angeles where she married TV and film producer Robert Bradford. After relocating to New York, Barbara dabbled in the world of interior design and completed a collection of 8 decorating books, wrote for magazines and three weekly columns for Newsday, but always had a burning desire to write novels. After four attempts, she triumphed with her first fictional novel, A Woman of Substance, selling over 31 million copies worldwide, and marking her as, The Queen of Fiction.

 

With her latest page-turner, Breaking the Rules, Barbara takes readers through another captivating adventure of a young woman who flees to New York in search of a new life following a terrifying encounter in the quiet countryside of England.            

Barbara bestows enormous success after 30 years of writing, 25 published best-sellers, and over 81 million copies sold in over 40 languages and more than 90 countries. In 2007 Queen Elizabeth awarded her the Order of the British Empire for her literary achievements. Barbara proclaims, “I’m a workaholic. I don’t go shopping or lunch with all the ladies. Writing challenges me every day and I don’t believe in retiring.”