Author: Virginia Coffman
Alternate names: Virginia Coffman; Victor Cross; Virginia Deuvaul; Virginia C. Du Vaul; Jeanne (Jeanna?) Duval; Diana Saunders; Ann(e) Stanfield
Born: July 30, 1914
Died: March 30, 2005
Bio: Virginia (Edith) Coffman was an American romance fiction writer. By the 1980s, Coffman was recognized as "the author largely responsible for setting off the Gothics craze of the 1960s, "earning her the reputation of "Queen of the Gothics." 
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