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To: Lemondropkid31
I found the article to which I was referring and there seems to be no proof at all...just speculation and probably envy that a high school drop out can be such a successful and well loved and rewarded author...

Whodunnit, Really? Is Dick Francis really the author of the novels that bear his name, or were they written by his late wife, Mary? Consider: He dropped out of school at age 15, whereas she had university degrees in French and English and once worked for a publisher. Prior to Mary’s death in 2000 (she died in his arms of a heart attack at age 76), Dick Francis produced a new novel every year. But after Mary died, he said that he doubted he would ever write anything longer than personal letters ever again. “So much of my work was her.” Indeed, for years Dick Francis credited Mary with an extensive role in the creation his novels, and he repeatedly urged her to accept credit as a co-author. She refused, arguing that “Dick Francis” was the brand name readers responded to. In the end, it hardly matters. But unless you have worked as a husband-and-wife writing team, you can’t really appreciate the melding of a genuine collaboration. And if you’re over 80 and have written a novel a year for more than the past 30 years, who can blame you for hanging up the racing silks?

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217 posted on 06/17/2005 2:09:37 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: daisyscarlett

It sounds like envy to me, too. I think it is neat that he and his wife could collaborate like that.


248 posted on 06/17/2005 7:44:56 PM PDT by Lemondropkid31 (If we do not pray for our leaders, we cannot expect them to do what is right.)
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