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According to a mini-biography, accompanied by a photograph, on the rear cover of one of her many gothic novels, Dorothy Daniels was born in Connecticut but by the time she was a full-time writer, in the middle 1960's, was living in California. She was initlally an English teacher at a state college but later wrote articles that appeared in national magazines, which led to her career as a writer of mostly gothic paperbacks. Lancer books, which published more than twenty of her novels, proclaimed her "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist" while Pocket Books claimed her gothic novels had sold over eleven million copies by the middle 1970's. Her approximately 146 novels were published by a dozen paperback publishers, some had as many as four printings while others were printed only once. Lancer and Warner Books together published more than sixty of her novels. The vast majority of her novels were written in the first person and this was a trademark of sorts with Dorothy Daniels, as she rarely strayed from this pattern. Several of her novels take place in the Old South. Her novels were also considerably more involving plot-wise and contained more character development than other gothic novels. She published her last gothic novel, "House of Silence", in late 1980. Afterward she wrote a handfull of historical romances and her last published novel appears to be "Crisis at Valcour" in 1985.
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The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chigago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
* [[Daniella Dorsett]]
 
* [[Daniella Dorsett]]
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* [[Suzanne Somers]]
 
* [[Suzanne Somers]]
 
* [[Geraldine Thayer]]
 
* [[Geraldine Thayer]]
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==Books==
 
==Books==
 
* "[[Affair In Hong Kong ]]" - 1969 [[Pyramid]]
 
* "[[Affair In Hong Kong ]]" - 1969 [[Pyramid]]
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* "[[Knight In Red Armor ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Knight In Red Armor ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Lady Of The Shadows ]]" - 1968 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Lady Of The Shadows ]]" - 1968 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Lanier Riddle ]]" - 1072 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[The Lanier Riddle ]]" - 1972 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Larrabee Heiress ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Larrabee Heiress ]]" - 1972 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Last of the Mansions / Survivors of Darkness ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Last of the Mansions / Survivors of Darkness ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
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* "[[The Stone House ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Stone House ]]" - 1973 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[Strange Paradise]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
 
* "[[Strange Paradise]]" - 1969 [[Paperback Library]]
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* "[[The Summer House]]" - 1976 [[Warner]]
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* "[[The Summer House - Dorothy Daniels|The Summer House]]" - 1976 [[Warner]]
 
* "[[The Templeton Memoirs ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[The Templeton Memoirs ]]" - 1966 [[Lancer]]
 
* "[[Terror Of The Twin ]]" - 1976 [[Berkley]]
 
* "[[Terror Of The Twin ]]" - 1976 [[Berkley]]

Latest revision as of 16:42, 29 August 2015


According to a mini-biography, accompanied by a photograph, on the rear cover of one of her many gothic novels, Dorothy Daniels was born in Connecticut but by the time she was a full-time writer, in the middle 1960's, was living in California. She was initlally an English teacher at a state college but later wrote articles that appeared in national magazines, which led to her career as a writer of mostly gothic paperbacks. Lancer books, which published more than twenty of her novels, proclaimed her "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist" while Pocket Books claimed her gothic novels had sold over eleven million copies by the middle 1970's. Her approximately 146 novels were published by a dozen paperback publishers, some had as many as four printings while others were printed only once. Lancer and Warner Books together published more than sixty of her novels. The vast majority of her novels were written in the first person and this was a trademark of sorts with Dorothy Daniels, as she rarely strayed from this pattern. Several of her novels take place in the Old South. Her novels were also considerably more involving plot-wise and contained more character development than other gothic novels. She published her last gothic novel, "House of Silence", in late 1980. Afterward she wrote a handfull of historical romances and her last published novel appears to be "Crisis at Valcour" in 1985.

The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chigago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.

See Also

Books

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