Background
Kate Coscarelli, real name Shirley Mae Tyer, was born on July 6, 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
Coscarelli studied at Washington University.
1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
Coscarelli studied at Washington University.
2012
961 Broxton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
Director Don Coscarelli attends the 2012 AFI FEST featuring "John Dies At The End" midnight screeening at the Mann Theatres 6 on November 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
(Four wealthy women living in Beverly Hills, all past thei...)
Four wealthy women living in Beverly Hills, all past their youth Peach, Grace, Maggie, and Laura find their comfortable, well-ordered lives threatened by ambition, jealousy, violence, and love.
https://www.amazon.com/Fame-Fortune-Kate-Coscarelli/dp/0451134702/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(Three beautiful women set out to grab the best of what Ma...)
Three beautiful women set out to grab the best of what Manhattan jet-set society and high-level political circles have to offer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0453004954/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(Lilah Conway's comfortable life as an executive wife in a...)
Lilah Conway's comfortable life as an executive wife in a posh Chicago suburb is put in jeopardy when Rose Wilkins, her beautiful light-skinned black twin sister, asks her to join a dangerous game of deception.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0453005330/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Chelsea Hunter the daughter of Hollywood superstar Bunny ...)
Chelsea Hunter the daughter of Hollywood superstar Bunny Thomas tries to hold onto her budding career, her lover, and her sense of identity despite the machinations of her manipulative grandmother, Laverne, whose stage-mother scheming years before had made Bunny a star.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312058896/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(Born into a fabulously wealthy California family, Lacey G...)
Born into a fabulously wealthy California family, Lacey Gallagher faces a brutal murder, police suspicions, and a deadly conspiracy as she confronts the implications of her domineering father's strange will 50,000 first printing.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312093055/?tag=2022091-20
1993
Kate Coscarelli, real name Shirley Mae Tyer, was born on July 6, 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Coscarelli studied at Washington University.
After graduation from Washington University, Coscarelli worked briefly as a flight attendant. She was a homemaker, mother and volunteer in many California charities but became somewhat active in the film industry when her son, Don Coscarelli Jr., made the horror movie Phantasm. It wasn’t until she was fifty-six years old that she began writing.
Her first book, Fame and Fortune, was a bestseller on both coasts and dealt with four women coping with middle age and changing lifestyles. Coscarelli changed her first name to Kate when a publisher told her she needed a trendier name than Shirley. All of her books were then published under that pseudonym. Other titles include Perfect Order, Living Color, Pretty Women, Leading Lady, and Heir Apparent. Coscarelli frequently was compared to authors Danielle Steele and Judith Krantz.
Kate Coscarelli was commonly known for her writings about women's lives who seemed quite similar in circumstances to Coscarelli herself. All of her novels have been selections of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. In 1989 the Palm Springs Women's' Press Club named her the Author of the Year, and in 1993 Kate was nominated for a Career Achievement Award in the Contemporary Novel by Romantic Times Magazine.
(Chelsea Hunter the daughter of Hollywood superstar Bunny ...)
1991(Born into a fabulously wealthy California family, Lacey G...)
1993(Lilah Conway's comfortable life as an executive wife in a...)
1987(Four wealthy women living in Beverly Hills, all past thei...)
1985(Three beautiful women set out to grab the best of what Ma...)
1985All of Coscarelli's books were focused on the lives of women who seemed quite similar in circumstances to Coscarelli herself. She said that she was told by a high school writing teacher to write about what she knew and Coscarelli said she concentrated on the lives of women "who learn to make their own choices in spite of having been brought up in a society that encouraged them to depend on men."
Kate was married to Donald Coscarelli, a producer and actor, known for such films as Bubba Ho-tep and John Dies at the End. She has two children, Don Coscarelli, a successful film writer-director, and Dr. Anne Coscarelli, a clinical psychologist and Director of the Rhonda Fleming Mann Center for Women with Cancer at the University of California at Los Angeles.
