The younger sister of the diva-esque actress Joan Collins, “Queen of the Bonkbuster” Jackie Collins wrote 32 novels and sold over 500 million books during her lifetime. Twice married and a mother of three, this big-haired novelist was born in Hampstead and held dual British-American citizenship from 1960. Despite her early works being condemned by Dame Barbara Cartland as “filthy and disgusting”, she made a fortune of upwards of £60 million and became famous worldwide. Of her success, Collins once modestly remarked: “I’m a storyteller. I’m not a literary writer and I never pretended to be” whilst her family’s statement on her death instead rightly lauded her as “a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force”.

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The Roll Call - WRITERS

1

Susie Steiner

2

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

3

Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

4

Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)

5

Malcolm Gladwell

6

Merlin Holland

7

Josie Goodbody

8

Jeanette Winterson OBE

9

Anna Smith

10

Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

11

Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

12

Mary Berry CBE

13

Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

14

Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

15

Anne Dunhill

16

John Armstrong

17

Derek Blasberg

18

Alex Preston

19

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)

20

Pippa Middleton

21

Richard Mason

22

Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

23

Susan Hill CBE

24

Helena Matheopolous

25

Steven Berkoff

26

Aita Ighodaro

27

Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)

28

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