Ms. Franson is the author of the novel “Big in Sweden.”
The news that the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford died on Sunday, at the age of 91, brought me right back to the library my family frequented when I was a kid, where her fat, pastel-colored paperbacks preened from the carousels to the right of the entrance. That’s where the most popular, most commercial books hung out, separated from the quiet dignity of the rest of the place. It was there that my mother would find me come checkout […]
She Was the Queen of 90 Million Nightstands