I'm a novelist from Charleston, SC. Following a brief illness, best-selling author Dorothea Benton Frank died Monday, the family of the South Carolina writer said. Dorothea Benton Frank, author of 20 novels set in the Charleston area and a beloved figure who for years split her time between Sullivan’s Island and the New York City area, died Monday evening after a brief illness. She was 67. Frank … Authors section of my Lexington County Public Library. Dorothea Benton Frank, author of 20 novels set in South Carolina's Lowcountry, died September 2. You can follow me on Twitter @dorotheafrank or on instagram @dorotheabentonfrank. Frank … COLUMBIA, S.C. — Popular novelist Dorothea Benton Frank died Monday after a brief illness. NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Dorothea Benton Frank, who set such best-sellers as “Sullivan’s Island” in her native South Carolina, has died. According to the Post and Courier, local author Dorothea Benton Frank died on Mon. She was 67. Montclair resident and bestselling novelist Dorothea Benton Frank dies. Frank was 67. Frank, the grande dame of Montclair’s close-knit community of writers, died Monday evening after a short illness. I discovered Dorothea (Dottie) Benton Frank in the S.C. She was Dorothea Benton Frank—known to … She was 67 and had had "a brief but intense battle with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, a type of cancer similar to leukemia," the Post and Courier reported. Her death was announced on her Facebook page. Frank died Monday after a … Dorothea Benton Frank, acclaimed author of fiction novels set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, has died after a brief illness. Acclaimed Lowcountry author Dorothea Benton Frank died Monday after a brief illness, according to a publicist for HarperCollins Publishers. Sept. 2, after a brief illness, MDS, a cancer similar to leukemia. 678 talking about this. At an authors lunch outside Detroit in May, 2016, a brunette in a bold red-and-white print dress made a beeline for me. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in this country.