Barbara Cartland

DAME BARBARA CARTLAND d2000. English author of romance novels and one of the most prolific and best selling of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels have been translated into 36 different languages and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness Book of Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. Sources estimate her total book sales at more than 2 billion copies. As head of Cartland Promotions she became one of London's most prominent society figures and one of Britain's most popular media personalities, right up until her death aged 98 in 2000