Bio:Dorothy Daniels

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Dorothy Daniels writes under a number of pseudonym names including...Angela Gray, Danielle Dorsett, Cynthia Kavanaugh, Helaine Ross, Suzanne Somers, and Geraldine Thayer. She was married to Norman Daniels who was also a writer. He wrote first and Dorothy assisted by editing and typing his manuscripts. She started writing later with short stories. When Norman's sales started to decline, Dorothy was encouraged to write more Gothic mysteries and was a smash hit. Her husband then helped her by editing her work and was sometimes erroneously credited with writing her books. Several web sites claim that Dorothy Daniels was someone else, e.g. that "she" was "Norman", but this appears to be false. (Definitive evidence, however, is lacking.) Some additional detail is available on the web pages listed here for her.

According to this website, Daniels was born in Connecticut, based on a mini-bio printed on the back of many of her novels.

According to the website of Bowling Green State University which houses her collected papers, she was born in Connecticut on July 1, 1915, and "presumably" died on December 3, 2001.