Pen name Jacqueline Briskin Period 1970-1995 Nationality British-American Role Writer | Language English Name Jacqueline Briskin Occupation Novelist Genre Historical fiction | |
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Born Jacqueline Orgell
18 December 1927
London, England ( 1927-12-18 ) Died December 24, 2014, Santa Monica, California, United States Books The naked heart, Dreams are Not Enough, The onyx, Rich friends, Too Much Too Soon | ||
Education Beverly Hills High School | ||
Jacqueline Briskin, née Orgell (18 December 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a British-born American writer specializing in historical fiction from 1970 to 1995. Her books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller's list. She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.
Her husband Bert Briskin was her agent, and one of her sons is Richard Sands.
Biography
Born Jacqueline Orgell on 18 December 1927 in London, England, the daughter of Marjorie and Spencer Orgell. In 1938, her family moved to United States, and she naturalized in 1944. She attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California and graduated in 1945.
On 9 May 1948, she married Bertram Norman "Bert" Briskin, born 17 February 1922. Her husband was an oil executive, who years later became her agent. They had three children: Ralph Louis Briskin, Elizabeth Ann Briskin, and Richard Paul Briskin (alias Richard Sands). Her husband died of Alzheimer on 16 July 2004.
Briskin sold her first novel in 1970, after which she published other 11 historical novels.