Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970) was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as the best selling woman author in the 1940-1950\'s (surpassing both Edna Ferber and Taylor Caldwell).
ISBNs and titles of author\'s previous books: Crescent Carnival
The River Road
Steamboat Gothic
Blue Camellia..
She lived and worked most of the time at the Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Her books have sold in excess of 20,000,000 copies and still sell well in the out of print, used market.
Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970) was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as the best selling woman author in the 1940-1950\'s (surpassing both Edna Ferber and Taylor Caldwell)
