PITCH LETTER

Lies, Lies, Lies.... all based on a TRUE STORY?

The answer is

YES!

And here is the evidence

 

     This is information on the "Pitch Letter" by V.C. Andrews. In my opinion it was not supposed to be revealed but many thanks to simonsays.com/VCAndrews the pitch letter and many unanswered questions on whether or not "FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC" was based on a true story can now be revealed!

 

[Click here to view the actual Pitch letter.]
It is a very hard document to read so I will give quotes from the letter if it was too small for you to understand.

 

Dear Ms. *******

Using a peo name, I have written and sold without an agent, three Gothic Romances, before that I wrote confession stories.

All the while I was writing other tales ... one kept bearing hard on my mind, begging to be told.

This is the fictionalized version of a true story. Real children who struggeled to survive under almost undurable circumstances. A horror story.

I call my novel, which is not truly fiction... Flowers in The Attic.

Yours Sincerely,

Virginia Andrews

(That is not the last name she signed it with but I could not make it out)