From NPR: The author of the bestselling Bridgerton novels, which served as the basis for a Netflix hit series that premiered last year, posted details Wednesday about a family tragedy on social media.
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“I have lost my father and my sister,” wrote Julia Quinn on Facebook about the car accident that occurred in Utah. “Because a catering company did not secure their load and canvas bags spilled onto the highway. Because a pickup driver thought nothing of driving while his blood alcohol level was nearly 3 times the legal limit. I have lost my father, and I don’t have my sister with whom to grieve. ”
Quinn said that she and her sister, comic strip artist Violet Charles, had just finished writing a graphic novel together. “It will still be dedicated to our father,” she wrote. “It won’t be a surprise anymore, but I’d like to think he suspected we’d do it. He knew us so well. He was our dad.”
Quinn’s father, Steve Cotler, was also an author. He wrote a series of books for middle schoolers about an 11 year old boy named Cheesie Mack. In her post, Quinn fondly remembered visiting a nightclub, while in college with “the most embarrassing dad ever.”
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