She completed one novel, a sci-fi epic entitled Gods of Green Mountain, in 1972, but it would not be published until 2004. In the last few decades of her life, Andrews decided to give writing a try. Her art commissions helped to support her family until the death of her father in 1957. She completed a four-year correspondence course from home, and was soon employed as a commercial artist, illustrator, and portrait painter. Despite these physical setbacks, Andrews showed plenty of artistic promise as a youngster, and didn't let her ailments get in the way. She was subsequently forced to use crutches and sometimes a wheelchair for the rest of her life. From an early age, Andrews was in poor health: she severely injured her back in a fall down a school stairwell, and the surgery to correct that pain left her riddled with crippling arthritis. The youngest child and only daughter of William and Lillian Andrews, she also had two older brothers, William Jr. Cleo Virginia Andrews was born on Jin Portsmouth, VA. Though she died while still in the prime of her career, her writings lived on, and sparked a public debate (not to mention a very unusual court case) about the monetary worth of a person's name. Andrews was an American author who specialized in seedy, sordid tales of family secrets and forbidden love, most famously the 1979 best-seller Flowers in the Attic.
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