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      • Dorothea Olivia Benton Frank (September 12, 1951 – September 2, 2019) was a best-selling American novelist. Her novels, including Porch Lights and By Invitation Only, are set in South Carolina.
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  2. Sep 8, 2019 · Sept. 8, 2019. Dorothea Benton Frank, a gregarious Southern novelist whose career started on a dare — that she could write a book that would earn enough money to buy back her family house in...

  3. Sep 3, 2019 · Dorothea Benton Frank, author of 20 novels set in the Charleston area and a beloved figure who for years split her time between Sullivan’s Island and the New York City area, died Monday evening...

  4. Dorothea Benton Frank was born and grew up on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. She attended Bishop England High School in Charleston, and then General William Moultrie High School, from where she graduated in 1969. She went on to become a graduate of the Fashion Institute of America in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972.

  5. Sep 11, 2019 · September 11, 2019. The best-selling author Dorothea Benton Frank died last week at the age of sixty-seven. Photograph by Kate Thornton / NYT / Redux. At an authors lunch outside Detroit in...

  6. May 7, 2024 · On Sept. 2, 2019, beloved southern writer Dorothea Benton Frank —author of classics like Sullivan’s Island: A Lowcountry Tale, Bulls Island, Folly Beach and Porch Lights —passed away at the age of 67. Over the years, Frank developed a reputation for her skillful storytelling and her ability to capture the subtle nuances of Southern life ...

  7. Frank, who passed away on Sept. 2, was a native of Sullivans Island and attended Charleston schools. In recent years, she divided her time between her treasured Lowcountry and her family’s second home in Montclair, New Jersey.

  8. Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, Dorothea “Dottie” Benton Frank was a New York Times best-selling author of 20 novels that use South Carolina as a backdrop. She died Monday at the age of 67 after a “brief but intense battle with myelodyplastic syndrome, or MDS,” according to the Post and Courier.

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