Virginia Andrews

Virginia Cleo Andrews is the author our wiki is built around.

Family
Virgina is one of three children born to William and Lillian Andrews. She grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia, and Rochester, New York. She has two brothers.

Mother
Due to her disability, Virigina lived with her mother for most of her life, her mother serving as her caregiver. Virigina said in an interview, "In my family, everybody's very attractive, perfect. My mother doesn't deal well with my handicap. She makes me feel more uncomfortable than I would. She's embarrassed with it and that, in turn, embarrasses me, although I'm getting over it."

Her mother never read any of her books.

Grandfather
When they lived in Rochester, they went to a Methodist church, and when they moved back to Portsmouth they went to a Southern Baptist church. She recounted in an interview, "My grandfather was fanatical about his religion. When we moved to Portsmouth, my mother fell under his control, and he insisted that everybody go to church on Sunday morning and Sunday night and on Wednesday, and she resented it, she didn't want to go. And she didn't go, but she made me go."

Brothers
Virginia had an older brother William (Bill) and a younger brother Eugene (Gene). When Gods of Green Mountain was eventually published, it contained a letter to the readers at the beginning, signed "Bill and Gene Andrews." In a 2013 interview, Ann Patty said one of her brothers still had the manuscript of Castles of the Damned.