Francine Pascal (born New York, May 13, 1938) is an American author known for creating the Sweet Valley series of novels. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Sweet Valley High is a Book series created by Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of Ghostwriters for the duration of the series' creation A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Her Sweet Valley High series was made into a television series. Although most of her books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they are still read all over the world.
Her 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. It was televised as My Mother Was Never a Kid. She has written two other Victoria Martin books, My First Love and Other Disasters, and Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo.
Her other notable books include Caitlin, a set of three trilogies which follows a teenage girl into adulthood, and the fantasy spy series Fearless and Fearless: FBI. Fearless is a series of teen novels written by Francine Pascal, who also called forth the Sweet Valley High The Ruling Class (2004) concerning a clique of spectacularly cruel girls who run a high school has been described as "a magnetic tour de force created by a master storyteller at the top of her form. "[1]
In addition to her work for teenagers, Pascal has written the adult fiction books La Villa (originally titled If Wishes Were Horses) and Save Johanna!, as well as a non-fiction book, The Case of Patty Hearst.
Pascal also wrote the book to the Broadway musical George M! with her husband John Pascal and brother Michael Stewart. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. For the 2006 Off-Broadway musical see George M Cohan Tonight! George M! is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart Michael Stewart ( August 1 1924 &ndash September 20 1987) was an American Playwright and Librettist. She revised the musical Mack and Mabel, and worked on revising the musical Carnival! for the Kennedy Center in Washington. Mack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Carnival! is a 1961 musical with book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, starring Anna Maria Alberghetti
Pascal says her writing is inspired by her own memories of growing up and by the experiences of her three daughters.
Francine Pascal lives in New York and the south of France. She graduated from New York University and married the journalist, John Pascal, who died in 1981. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City.