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Dorothea Olivia Benton Frank (September 12, 1951 – September 2, 2019) was a best-selling American novelist. Her novels, including Porch Lights and By Invitation Only, are set in South Carolina. Biography Dorothea Benton Frank was born and grew up on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. She attended Bishop England High School in Charleston, and then General William Moultrie High School, from where she graduated in 1969. She went on to become a graduate of the Fashion Institute of America in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972. She died in Manhattan of complications from myelodysplastic syndrome on September 2, 2019, at the age of 67.Frank's writing career started because she wanted to buy the family house on Sullivan's Island after her mother died in 1993. Her husband did not want to buy it, so she said she would write a book and use the proceeds to buy the house. She didn't manage to buy the family home, but did buy another home on Sullivan's Island with money she earned from writing. “I went to my husband and said, ‘I want to buy Momma’s house and keep it in the family.’ Peter said, ‘How much is it?’ I said $180,000. I only needed $149,000 and he said no. I asked him why and he said, ‘If you think I'm going to spend the rest of my life sitting on a front porch listening to all your relatives tell the same stories over and over till they fall off the porch, I'm not going to do it.’ ” Ms. Frank was livid. “I said: ‘O.K. Well, I’ve got news for you, Bubba. I’m going to write a book and I’m going to sell a million copies and I’m going to buy Momma’s house back. And you can’t come in.’ He said, ‘Let’s see you do it.’ ” Works Lowcountry Tales series Sullivan's Island: A Low Country Tale, Jove Berkley Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 978-0739408377 Plantation, Jove Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0739417034 Isle of Palms: A Lowcountry Tale, Thorndike Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0786258765 Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale, Berkley Hardcover, 2004, ISBN 978-0425196083 Pawleys Island: A Lowcountry Tale, Berkley Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0425202715 Return to Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales), William Morrow, 2009, ISBN 978-0061438455 Lowcountry Summer, William Morrow, 2010, ISBN 978-0061961175 Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale, William Morrow, 2011 ISBN 978-0061961274 The Hurricane Sisters, William Morrow, 2014, ISBN 978-0062132529 Same Beach, Next Year, William Morrow, 2017, ISBN 978-0062390783Novels Full of Grace, William Morrow, 2006, ISBN 978-0060892357 The Land of Mango Sunsets, William Morrow, 2007, ISBN 978-0739484654 Bulls Island, William Morrow, 2008, ISBN 978-0061438431 The Christmas Pearl, William Morrow, 2008, ISBN 978-0739488553 Porch Lights, William Morrow, 2012, ISBN 978-0061961298 The Last Original Wife, William Morrow, 2013, ISBN 978-0062132468 All the Single Ladies, William Morrow, 2015, ISBN 978-0062132567 All Summer Long, William Morrow, 2016, ISBN 978-0062390752 By Invitation Only, William Morrow, 2018, ISBN 978-0062390820 Queen Bee, William Morrow, 2019, ISBN 978-0062959065References External links Official website Lynn Hamilton, "Dorothea Benton Frank: Frankly speaking" (interview), BookPage, April 2007.. Discover the Dorothea Benton Frank popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dorothea Benton Frank books.

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  • Isle of Palms synopsis, comments

    Isle of Palms

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes readers on a rollicking ride in this lowcountry tale about a woman whose unconventional friends and family show her th...

  • Shem Creek synopsis, comments

    Shem Creek

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    “The strong pull of friendship, the leisurely pace of a tiny, waterfront Southern town, and the steady buildup of romance help buoy Frank’s welldrawn, memorable characters” (Publis...

  • Swimming for Sunlight synopsis, comments

    Swimming for Sunlight

    Allie Larkin

    When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underw...

  • The Summer of Songbirds synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Songbirds

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFour women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process in this moving new novel from th...

  • The Last House Guest synopsis, comments

    The Last House Guest

    Megan Miranda

    A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestsellerA year after a summer guest dies under suspicious circumstances, her best friend lives under a clou...

  • The Last Original Wife synopsis, comments

    The Last Original Wife

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman’s quest to find the love she de...

  • Feels Like Falling synopsis, comments

    Feels Like Falling

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes the instant USA...

  • A Lowcountry Wedding synopsis, comments

    A Lowcountry Wedding

    Mary Alice Monroe

    Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s fourth novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer s...

  • Porch Lights synopsis, comments

    Porch Lights

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become...

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    The Secret to Southern Charm

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    A 2018 Spring Okra Pick USA TODAY Happy Ever After’s Best Women’s Fiction Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2018 Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List Raleigh N...

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    Under the Southern Sky

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    This instant New York Times bestsellerthat’s “perfect for fans of beach reads, P.S. I Love You, and anything by authors Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand” (Country Living) follo...

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    The Southern Side of Paradise

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    The internationally bestselling Peachtree Bluff series concludes with this “deliciously authentic Southern tale of family and the often messy, complex relationships between sisters...

  • The Breakaway synopsis, comments

    The Breakaway

    Jennifer Weiner

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a lifechanging journey.Thirtythr...

  • Pawleys Island synopsis, comments

    Pawleys Island

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Dorothea Benton Frank presents a refreshingly honest and funny novel about friendship, family, and finding happiness by becoming who you're meant to be.Catapulted from her home, he...

  • All the Single Ladies synopsis, comments

    All the Single Ladies

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    The perennial New York Times bestselling author returns with an emotionally resonant novel that illuminates the power of friendship in women’s lives, and is filled with her tradema...

  • Reunion Beach synopsis, comments

    Reunion Beach

    Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan Henry, Cassandra King, Nathalie Dupree, Marjory Wentworth & Mary Alice Monroe

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, largerthanlife New York Times bestsellin...

  • A Lowcountry Christmas synopsis, comments

    A Lowcountry Christmas

    Mary Alice Monroe

    A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in a timeless story of family in this “lovely and memorable” (Luis Carlos Montalván, New York Times...

  • Plantation synopsis, comments

    Plantation

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank evokes a lush plantation in the heart of modernday South Carolinawhere family ties and hidden truths run as deep and dark as...

  • The Summer Girls synopsis, comments

    The Summer Girls

    Mary Alice Monroe

    From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, the heartwarming first installment in the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, a poignant series following three halfsisters and the...

  • The Summer of Good Intentions synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Good Intentions

    Wendy Francis

    Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationand th...

  • The Summer Wind synopsis, comments

    The Summer Wind

    Mary Alice Monroe

    The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe’s Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestselling The Summer Girls. This series is a poignant and heartwarming stor...

  • Tage am Meer synopsis, comments

    Tage am Meer

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Sommer, Sonne, Strand und ganz viel Happy End – Der Roman "Tage am Meer" von New York Times BestsellerAutorin Dorothea Benton Frank bietet beste Unterhaltung und ist perfekte Urlau...

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    The Art of Devotion

    Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

    In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha BruceBenjamin’s brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share...

  • The Summer of Lost and Found synopsis, comments

    The Summer of Lost and Found

    Mary Alice Monroe

    The New York Times bestselling Beach House series continues with this timely, tender, and compassionate tale of perseverance, love, and the bonds of family in the face of tremendou...

  • On Ocean Boulevard synopsis, comments

    On Ocean Boulevard

    Mary Alice Monroe

    This “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author) instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Summer of Lost and Found re...

  • Folly Beach synopsis, comments

    Folly Beach

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    “Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.”Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and S...

  • Slightly South of Simple synopsis, comments

    Slightly South of Simple

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER Glitter Guide’s “Must Reads for April” PopSugar’s “Ultimate Summer Reading” Bustle’s Books to Read and Discuss With Your Mom and Grandma New York Live’s “Ashley...

  • A Happier Life synopsis, comments

    A Happier Life

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    With “her signature warmth and Southern charm” (E! Online), the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Songbirds and the Peachtree Bluff series presents a tender and to...