Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970) was a prolific journalist, editor, memoirist, and biographer, but was most well known as the best selling woman author in the 1940-1950's (surpassing both Edna Ferber and Taylor Caldwell). Her books have sold in excess of 20,000,000 copies and still sell well in the out of print, used market. She lived and worked most of the time at the Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter in New Orleans. ISBNs and titles of author's previous books: Crescent Carnival; The River Road; Steamboat Gothic; Blue Camellia.