- She fell down the stairs in her school when she was a teenager. As a result, she was confined to a wheel chair for most of her life.
- During her life, the wheelchair-bound V. C. never wed. Her books were her children.
- After her death in 1986, horror author Andrew Neiderman was hired to continue writing books under the V.C. Andrews name. She had left outlines for a handful of books, but all the work was Niederman's.
- When her father died in the late '60s, she and her mother moved back to Virginia to be close to her brother.
- Covers for her books "Flowers in the Attic", "Petals on the Wind" and "If There Be Thorns" were created by Gillian Hills.
- She was the daughter of Lillian Lilnora (Parker), a telephone operator, and William Henry Andrews, a tool-and-die maker.
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