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Aug 21, 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.
Sep 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 May, 2016, a brunette...
Nov 20, 2016 · She and her husband have three children — Bill Benton Jr. of Memphis, Murray Benton Sr. of Jonesboro and Dorothy Benton Lagarde of Covington, Louisiana.
Jocelyne Bredin LaGarde (24 April 1924 – 12 September 1979) [3] was a Native Tahitian actress who became famous for her first and only acting role in the 1966 motion picture, Hawaii, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Biography.
Sep 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 South Carolina...
Sep 4, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Dorothea Benton Frank, who set such best-sellers as “Sullivan’s Island” in her native South Carolina, has died. She was 67. Frank died Monday after a brief battle with leukemia, publisher William Morrow announced.