- Source of Wealth: Books
- Age: 86
- Birth Place: Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Height: 1.68 m (5′ 6″)
- Marital Status: Married (Robert Bradford)
- Full Name: Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Nationality: British
- Date of Birth: May 10, 1933
- Ethnicity: English
- Occupation: Novelist
- Education: Leeds Metropolitan University
Best-selling English novelist, Barbara Taylor Bradford has a net worth of $300 million. Her books have sold 83 million copies in 90 countries. Ten of her books have been adapted for television. Now living in Manhattan, Barbara Taylor Bradford started in the typing pool at her local newspaper in Leeds before moving to Fleet Street and then New York, where her first novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II awarded the OBE for her contributions to literature.