Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford has died at the age of 91. Barbara Taylor Bradford was a prolific author whose debut book A Woman Of Substance is one of the best-selling novels of all-time. The novel sold more than 30 million copies since its publication in 1979, reports The Sun.

Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, whose books have sold more than 91 million copies to date, has died at the age of 91.

Author Barbara Taylor Bradford, best known for her debut novel "A Woman of Substance," has died at age 91. Her books often starred strong women.

Her own rags-to-riches story mirrored those of many of her resilient heroines, and her dozens of novels helped her amass a fortune of $300 million.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies,

Starting with 'A Woman of Substance,' published in 1979, Bradford averaged nearly a book a year as one of the world's most popular and wealthiest writers.

Mrs. Bradford amassed an enormous following and fortune with books that championed women who were strong, ambitious, resilient — and fabulously rich and beautiful. She wrote more than 30 bestsellers.