Jackie collins early life
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Rory Green on Her Mother, International Bestselling Novelist Jackie Collins
My mother, Jackie Collins, published her first book in , the year before I was born, and she published her thirty first and last book in , the year she died. The years in between were spent juggling the magnitude of motherhood with the life of a highly successful writer, and my sisters and I had front row seats to her creative process.
Our mother was a born storyteller. After she died, we discovered a stack of notebooks written at the tender age of thirteen entitled “These Things Called Teenagers”. We were mesmerized flicking through these beautiful artifacts, lovingly illustrated by our aunt Joan. There was Jackie Collins on the page, her gorgeous cursive handwriting, her confident and feisty tone, her vivid characters. It was both reassuring and exciting to see that her voice had always been present.
In every house we lived in, our mother always had a r • English novelist (–) Jacqueline Jill CollinsOBE (4 October – 19 September ) was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in and spent most of her career there.[1] She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.[2] Her books have sold more than million copies and have been translated into 40 languages.[3][4] Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of Dame Joan Collins. Collins was born in , in Hampstead, London,[5][6][7] the younger daughter of Elsa (née Bessant) Collins (died ) and Joseph William Collins (died ), a theatrical agent whose clients later included Dame Shirley Bassey, the Beatles, and Sir Tom Jones.[8] Collins's South African-born father was Jewish, and her British mother was Anglican.[9] A middle • Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" CollinsOBE (4 October &#; 19 September [1][2][3]) was an English-American novelist. She wrote 32 novels, all of which have been on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over million copies and have been translated into 40 languages.[4][5] Eight of the books were made into movies or television mini-series. She died on 19 September of breast cancer in Beverly Hills, California, aged [6] She was the younger sister of Joan Collins. Jackie Collins
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