British Writer Joanna Trollope Dies at 82

Joanna Trollope announces the shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction in London on April 17, 2012. Lewis Whyld/PA via AP

LONDON—British writer Joanna Trollope has died, her family said Friday. She was 82.

Trollope’s daughters, Antonia and Louise, said the writer died peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire, southern England, on Thursday.