Her books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller's list.
She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.
[1] Her husband Bert Briskin was her agent, and one of her sons is Richard Sands.
On 9 May 1948, she married Bertram Norman "Bert" Briskin, born 17 February 1922.
Her husband was an oil executive, who years later became her agent.