Breaking News: So Sad, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Best-Selling Author of A Woman of Substance, Dies at 91 due to……

The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91.

The British-American author died “peacefully at her home” following a short illness on Sunday, Nov. 24, PEOPLE can confirm.

Bradford’s representatives said in a statement to PEOPLE: “With the deepest and heartfelt sadness, it is confirmed that Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has died. Barbara, 91, died peacefully at her home yesterday following a short illness, and was surrounded by loved ones to the very end.”