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Virginia Coffman

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Virginia Coffman


Born
in San Francisco, The United States
July 30, 1914

Died
March 31, 2005

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Virginia Edith Coffman aka Jeanne Duval, Diana Saunders, Victor Cross, Ann Stanfield, Virginia C. Du Vaul, Kay Cameron.

A native of San Francisco, Coffman contributed movie reviews to the Oakland Tribune from 1933-40. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938 and was a movie and television script writer for Columbia, RKO, and other Hollywood studios in her early writing career (1944-56). She had her first success with writing novels in 1959, when Crown Publishing decided to take a chance on Moura, and the novel was showcased by Library Journal. By the 1980s, Coffman was recognized as "the author largely responsible for setting off the Gothics craze of the 1960s, "earning her the reputation of "Queen of the Gothics."1
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Average rating: 3.66 · 1,269 ratings · 173 reviews · 104 distinct worksSimilar authors
Moura

4.06 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions
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The Beckoning from Moura

3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions
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The Devil Beyond Moura

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1966 — 13 editions
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The Vampyre of Moura

3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1970 — 9 editions
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Black Heather

3.43 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions
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The Dark Palazzo

3.70 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions
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The Dark Beyond Moura

3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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The House at Sandalwood

3.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions
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The Demon Tower

3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions
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Mistress Devon

3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1972 — 13 editions
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