She said her favorite works were her biographical novels. In 1946, Miss Seton turned to the American southwest of the 1890s, publishing the novel "The Turquoise." "Foxfire," published in 1950, which was set in an Arizona ghost town, was made into a 1955 film starring Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler. It was made into a 1946 movie starring Vincent Price as a feudal overlord who tyrannizes his tenants, kills his wife and has a romance with a distant relative. It was published in 1944 and was translated into nine languages, gaining her international recognition. "Dragonwyck," her second novel, was a Gothic tale set along the Hudson River in the 1840s.
Miss Seton's first book, "My Theodosia," was a fictional biography of Aaron Burr's daughter, a legendary beauty who died under mysterious circumstances.
8 at her home in Greenwich after a heart attack. Anya Seton, 86, whose best-selling novels "Dragonwyck" and "Foxfire" were made into Hollywood movies, died Nov.
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