Editing V. C. Andrews (section)

==Profile==
Andrews's novels combine [[Gothic horror]] and [[family saga]], revolving around [[family secrets]] and incestual, forbidden love (frequently involving themes of horrific events, and sometimes including a [[rags-to-riches]] story). Her best-known novel is the bestseller ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' (1979), a tale of four children smuggled into the attic of their wealthy estranged pious grandmother, and held prisoner there by their mother.

Her novels were successful enough that following Andrews's death, her estate hired a [[ghost writer]], [[Andrew Neiderman]], to [[continuation novel|continue to write novels to be published under her name]].<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title='Awful and fabulous': the madness of Flowers in the Attic |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/14/flowers-in-the-attic-vc-andrews-40-years |access-date=November 17, 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=November 14, 2019}}</ref> In assessing a deficiency in her [[Estate tax in the United States|estate tax]] returns, the [[Internal Revenue Service]] argued (successfully) that Virginia Andrews's name was a valuable commercial asset, the value of which should be included in her gross estate.<ref>Estate of Andrews v. United States, 850 F.Supp.1279 (E.D. Va. 1994)</ref>

Her novels have been translated into [[Czech language|Czech]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]].