Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall.
15 Facts About Rosamunde Pilcher
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Rosamunde Pilcher's books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide.
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Rosamunde Pilcher was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall.
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Rosamunde Pilcher's parents were Helen and Charles Scott, a British civil servant.
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Rosamunde Pilcher attended the School of St Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College.
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Rosamunde Pilcher began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18.
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From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service.
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Rosamunde Pilcher died on 6 February 2019, at the age of 94, following a stroke.
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Rosamunde Pilcher published a further ten novels under that name.
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The breakthrough in Rosamunde Pilcher's career came in 1987, when she wrote the family saga The Shell Seekers, her fourteenth novel under her own name.
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Rosamunde Pilcher was said to be among the highest-earning women in Britain by the mid-1990s.
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The president of the association in 2019, the romance writer Katie Fforde, considers Rosamunde Pilcher to be "groundbreaking as she was the first to bring family sagas to the wider public".
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Felicity Bryan, in her obituary for The Guardian, writes that Rosamunde Pilcher took the romance genre to "an altogether higher, wittier level"; she praises Rosamunde Pilcher's work for its "grittiness and fearless observation" and comments that it is often more prosaic than romantic.
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Rosamunde Pilcher's books are especially popular in Germany because the national television station ZDF has produced more than a hundred of her stories as TV movies, starting with The Day of the Storm in 1993.
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Rosamunde Pilcher was awarded the British Tourism Award in 2002 for the positive effect the books and the adaptations have had on Cornish tourism.