Anne Edwards, known as `The Queen of Biography` for her best-selling books on Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn, as well as 14 other celebrity biographies, died in Beverly Hills, California, Deadline reported. She was 96 years old, and her daughter reported that she died of lung cancer at a senior care facility.

In addition to her biographies, the prolific author wrote eight novels, three children`s books, two memoirs, and one autobiography. Edwards, a child actor on radio and stage, sold her first screenplay in 1949 when she was 22 (the western `Quantez,` starring Fred MacMurray, was released in 1957).