Jacqueline Briskin

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    November 1996
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About the Author

Jacqueline Orgell was born on 18 December 1927 in London, England, the daughter of Marjorie (Mendelsohn) 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, borned on 17 February 1922. Her husband was an oil executive, who years later became his 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.

She sold her first novel in 1970, after which she published other 11 historical novels. Her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide. Her books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller's list, and she was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times.

Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Afterlove

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  • Rich Friends

    New York Timesâ€"bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin’s steamy romantic saga about two generations of a privileged California family that chases the American dream, from the postâ€"World War II boom years to the turbulent, psychedelic 1960s The ye...

  • The Onyx

    New York Timesâ€"bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin delivers a richly romantic, epic novel about the founding of the automobile industry, spanning two continents and five turbulent decades of American history In 1894, while penniless nineteen-year...

  • Everything and More

    Two sisters -- the beautiful and alluring Marilyn, and her smart and savvy sister, Roy -- move to Beverly Hills with their mother after the death of their father, so that they can attend the posh public school Beverly Hills High. Though they live in ...

  • Too Much Too Soon

    Three sisters. Vastly different...equally talented...stunningly beautiful...destinies forever entwined by the one man who opened their eyes and their hearts to TOO MUCH TOO SOON....

  • California Generation

  • Dreams Are Not Enough

    In this latest Briskin rags-to-riches potboiler, Alice Hollister, a migrant crop picker, metamorphoses into Alyssia del Mar, ``the ultimate screen love goddess.'' She marries into the powerful, cruel and inseparable Cordiner family, a Hollywood film ...

  • Paloverde

    The love story of Amelie -- the sensitive, ardent, young girl whose uncompromising code of honor leads her to choices that will reverberate for generations. The tale of two brothers whose fierce love for the same woman almost destroys them both. Th...

  • The Naked Heart

    An oath to avenge her father's death at the hands of the Nazis costs lovely French aristocrat Gilberte de Permont her innocence and her best friend, American Ann Blakely, her rival for the affections of a wealthy American heir...



  • The Other Side of Love

  • The Crimson Palace

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Jacqueline Briskin has published 11 books.

Jacqueline Briskin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Crimson Palace, was published in November 1996.

The first book by Jacqueline Briskin, Afterlove, was published in January 1974.

No. Jacqueline Briskin does not write books in series.
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