Velda Johnston - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jan 01, 0001 California, United States Died on 01 Jan 1997 (aged 1996)

American writer

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About Velda Johnston

  • Velda Johnston (1912–1997) was an American writer of Gothic Romance novels.
  • She also wrote under the pseudonym Veronica Jason.
  • She was raised and educated in Pasadena, California where she sold her first short story as a high school student.
  • She went to UCLA on scholarship where she majored in Journalism and wrote articles for the UCLA newspaper.
  • In the early 1950s, she and her husband, Robert Heslop, moved to New York.
  • They divided their time between an apartment in Manhattan and a nineteenth-century farmhouse in Sag Harbor on eastern Long Island.
  • Her work, both fiction and nonfiction, appeared in scores of magazines in the United States and abroad over a 40-year period of time.
  • In her writing, Velda Johnston provides examples of young women who seek happiness and fulfillment in an assertive, independent manner.
  • Her early novels were set in the U.S., but her later novels usually had foreign settings.
  • A Howling in the Woods was made into a television movie in 1971 and starred Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman.

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