name: Dorothea Benton Frank
birth_date: 1951-09-12 00:00:00
death_date: 2019-09-02 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
avg_rating: 3.87
ratings_count: 268778
about: Dorothea Benton Frank was a New York Times best-selling American novelist of Southern fiction. She worked in the apparel industry from 1972 until 1985 and then organized fundraisers as a volunteer, before becoming a novelist.She is best known as the author of twenty novels placed in and around the Lowcountry of South Carolina.