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The ghostwriter behind 65 Virginia Andrews Novels.

posted 10 years ago by juliemarkmarshall
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Sadly Virginia Andrews passed away in 1986 before completing the third 'Flowers in the Attic' novel. The Andrews estate & publishers then secretly conspired to bring in a ghostwriter. Amazingly this was kept quiet for several years, but even today after writing 65 VC Andrews books the name of the ghostwriter Neiberman appears nowhere in the books.

This linked article by journalist Kate Aurthur gives a riveting account of this long kept, but not so secret 'secret'

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/the-ghost-of-vc-andrews-the-life-d eath-and-afterlife-of-the

[–] mdnightwnd 10 years ago

Very interesting article - thanks for posting it. I learned some things that I didn't know.

However, you're wrong about her passing away before she completed the third Flowers in the Attic novel. The only one in the series that she didn't write was Garden of Shadows. The others were published long before her death.