Jacqueline Briskin is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 specializing in historical fiction

Historical fiction

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. Her books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller's list.

She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide. Her husband Bert Briskin was her agent. Her son is Richard Sands

Richard Sands

Richard Sands is employed in the American radio industry.First program director at LIVE 105 in San Francisco. He began at the station as evening disc jockey when it was a Hot Hits formatted Top 40 station in 1983, eventually rising to the program director position in 1985...

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Education

Briskin attended Beverly Hills High School

Beverly Hills High School

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 in Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills, California

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and graduated in 1945.