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arbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, and by the age of twenty was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by sixteen others, most recently The Triumph of Katie Byrne. Her books have sold more than sixty-one million copies worldwide in more than eighty-nine countries and thirty-nine languages. She lives in New York City with her husband, producer Robert Bradford.