V.C. Andrews was born in 1924 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was one of three children.
In her late teens, a fall down a flight of stairs tore a membrane and led to bone spurs. The fall combined with bothced orthopedic surgery, would lead to her ultimate dependence on a wheel chair later in life.
After her father's death in the late 1960's, her family moved to Manchester, Missouri. It was then that she began to devote all of her time to writing, which produced her first novel, "The Godds Of The Green Mountain.