Janet Dailey

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey ( born May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa; † December 14, 2013 in Branson, Missouri) was an American writer. Your love and family novels have been translated into 20 languages ​​and sold worldwide by the time of her death more than 325 million times. Her novel Foxfire Light served as the basis for a feature film.

Published in 1979, Dailey touch with the Wind for the first time an extended love and family novel in book form. Until then, it was common that such literature was only published in magazines or appeared as a pulp novel. The publication made ​​it to the bestseller list of The New York Times. Since 1993, Janet Dailey donated annually to $ 5,000 USD doped Janet Dailey Award.

Plagiarism cases

Although Dailey was very successful as a writer, she confessed in 1997 Repeatedly copying the works of Nora Roberts. This was the comparison of the Roberts - plant Sweet Revenge and Dailey 's Notorious by a reader out. The two authors agreed and Dailey paid an unknown sum, which was donated by Nora Roberts.