John and Francine Pascal lived in Manhattan with Francine's three daughters from her first marriage: Jamie, Laurie, and Susan. Without further corroboration, however, this can be considered no more than conjecture.) (Although La Villa was billed as fiction, it has been suggested that it may have been based in part upon true experiences of the author and her late husband.
In addition to her work for mostly female teens, Francine has written some adult fiction books, including La Villa (originally published as If Wishes Were Horses) and Save Johanna!, as well as a non-fiction book, The Strange Case of Patty Hearst, which she wrote with her husband John.
The Ruling Class, a teen novel about a clique of spectacularly cruel girls who essentially run a high school in a wealthy Dallas suburb, was described in a Fantastic Fiction review as "a magnetic tour de force created by a master storyteller at the top of her form."
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A TV series was also planned for Fearless, but for several reasons it never aired. More recent works include the Caitlin series, a set of three trilogies which follows a teenage girl into adulthood, as well as a second mass-market project, the young adult fantasy spy series Fearless and its spin-off, Fearless: FBI. Another of her early novels, The Hand-Me-Down Kid, was also made into an ABC After-School Special. She has written two other Victoria Martin books: My First Love and Other Disasters, and Love and Betrayal & Hold the Mayo. It was televised as an ABC After-School Special entitled My Mother Was Never a Kid. She has also worked on the revision of another of his musicals, Carnival!, for the Kennedy Center in Washington.įrancine's first young adult novel, published in 1977, was called Hangin' Out with Cici, in which her heroine, Victoria Martin, went back in time and met her mother as a teenager. Since then, Francine has revised his musical Mack & Mabel. A television version of George M! was aired on NBC in 1970. Francine, her husband John, and her brother Michael worked together writing the book to the Broadway musical George M!, which ran at the Palace Theatre from 1968 - 1970. John died of cancer in 1981, at 49 years old.įrancine's brother was the prolific Broadway playwright and librettist Michael Stewart, who wrote the books to such Broadway musical hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, and 42nd Street. Francine often credited John as her writing mentor, and they collaborated on several projects, including writing scripts for the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds, which aired from 1964 - 1966. It was there that she first met author and journalist John Pascal and, in 1965, they were married (the second marriage for each). There were also several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club, Sweet Valley University, and Sweet Valley Sorority.įrancine Rubin graduated from New York University in 1958. Sweet Valley High was the backbone of the collection, and was made into a popular television series. Francine Pascal, a native New Yorker, is an author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of young adult novels.
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