Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame, and her 1997 album Come On Over became the best-selling studio album of all time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, Come On Over sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

Her most famous novels include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams ' Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ), starring Gene Tierney, which was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s.

Her best-selling book, which purported to describe the honor killing of her best friend, was exposed as a literary hoax the next year.

Her 1956 book The Nun's Story was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch.

Her final such work, a two-record set released on Columbia Records, placed on Billboards best-selling country albums chart in 1973 when she was 64.

Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring best-seller and according to Reuters, it ranks as one of the top-ten best-selling novels of all time.

Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.

Her first film of 2011 was The Help, a movie adaption of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel of the same name ; it also starred Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain.

Her album Back to Black posthumously became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century, at that point.

Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.

Her best-selling single to date is.

Her best-selling memoir Inochi ( 命, " Life ") was made into a movie, also titled Inochi.

Her first full-length novel was The Siren's Song, a best-selling romantic comedy set on the background of the Scud missile attacks on Tel-Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991.

Her best-selling novel, The Bondmaid ( which sold 75, 000 copies ) was initially said to be produced as a film by Hong Kong director, Stanley Kwan, of ' Lan Yu ' fame, starring Fann Wong.

Her best-selling song was Hele ugen alene (" Seven lonely days ") in 1953, which sold over 120, 000 copies.

In 1932, he wrote the best-selling pulp novel No Bed of Her Own, which was later used for the film No Man of Her Own, with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Her best-selling 1958 novel, The Best of Everything, obviously drawn from her experiences at Fawcett and Gold Medal, was adapted for a 1959 film and a 1970 TV series.

Her best-selling books, including the Home Buyers Kit and Home Sellers kit, provide practical advice for real estate transactions.

Her writing is widely translated -- her best-selling On Prayer: A Letter for My Godchild is in Indonesian, Spanish and Italian -- and she edits the Liturgical Press ’ " Spirituality in History " series.

Her next novel, Pitch Dark ( 1983 ), was a highly regarded — and also best-selling — sequel.

She is the author of the best-selling Bailey Weggins mystery novels ( Lethally Blond, Over Her Dead Body, ' Til Death Do Us Part, A Body to Die For, If Looks Could Kill ), for which she has received critical acclaim.

* Her fourth and last marriage was to Barry Comden ( born 1935 – died 2009 ), who was roughly a decade younger, from April 14, 1976 until 1981.

Her first effort was called Sunflower to the sun ISBN 0-7981-1228-X ( Human & Rousseau, 1976 ), followed by Herman Charles Bosman, a Pictorial Biography ISBN 0-628-02148-8 ( Perskor, 1981 ), and most recently by Herman Charles Bosman: Between the Lines ISBN 1-77007-163-6 ( Struik, 2005 ).

Her books with photographs of the tribes were published in 1974 and 1976 as The Last of the Nuba and The People of Kau and were both international bestsellers.

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976.

Van Vliet also played the harmonica on two songs on Zappa albums: " San Ber ' dino " ( credited as " Bloodshot Rollin ' Red ") on One Size Fits All ( 1975 ) and " Find Her Finer " on Zoot Allures ( 1976 ).

Her sister Betty died suddenly of a brain aneurysm in 1976.

Her singles " Take Me High " ( 1975 ) and " Lovin ' You " ( 1976 ) were mainly popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin ( 1894 – 1964 ), a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley ( 1894 – 1976 ).

Her personal library was deposited at Bard College at the Stevenson Library in 1976, and includes approximately 4, 000 books, ephemera, and pamphlets from Arendt's last apartment.

Her collection at the palazzo remained open during the summers until her death in Camposampiero, northern Italy, in 1979 ; she had donated the palazzo and the 300-piece collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1976.

Her partner is retired producer David Davis ; they have lived together since 1976.

* Ireland Her Own, T. A. Jackson, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd 1976.

*" Can You Roll Her " / " Belladonna " ( 1976, Japan only )

*" Talkin ' About Her "/" It's All With You " by Christopher Cross ( 1976 )

Her marriage to Hodges lasted from 1958 until their divorce in 1976.

Her long career has included many films and television programmes, but she is probably best known for starring as Livia in the popular BBC adaptation of Robert Graves's novel, I, Claudius ( BBC2, 1976 ), for which she won the 1977 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress, and for many appearances on the original run of Call My Bluff.

* Ireland Her Own, T. A. Jackson, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd 1976.

Her doctorate in Sociology ( with an emphasis in Criminology ) was awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976.

Her appearance as Anne Osborne in the 1976 film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea was nominated for the

Her siblings are Rafael ( born 1971 ), Dante ( born 1974 ), and Pia ( born 1976 ).

Her first modeling assignment was for Vogue a year later in 1976.

Her second was to journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame in 1976.

Her parents divorced in 1976.

Her other works include The World of the Past ( 1963 ), " Prehistory ( History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume 1 Part 1 )" ( 1963 ) prepared under the auspices of UNESCO, The Atlas of Early Man ( 1976 ) and The Shell Guide to British Archaeology ( 1986 ).