*"Husband & Wife/Partnership Writing Teams"*

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I have realised that three of my sporadically or totally favourite writers are "teams", of husband and wife, and i think it produces a particular effect, a potent richness of perspective or style; i'm not sure what.

1)"Angelique", by Serge and Anne Golon. ( used to be published as by "Sergeanne Golon", which seemed like one person) My all time favourite historical romance, ( better by far than "Gone With the Wind), written in the 50s; the first 5 books are my favourite, after that they go downhill rather.

2)"Beneath the Skin" and "In the Land of the Living" by "Nikki French". Husband and wife.

3) Most books by Dick Francis. It turns out, it was revealed at his or her death, can't remember, that "he" wrote his books with his wife. Which suddenly explained a lot.

Does anyone else know of any books written by partnerships of man and woman like that? Would love to know. Thanks.

The "Belgarath sorcerer" saga by Leah and David Eddings. But to tell the truth, I didn't go into raptures over the books (I like fantasy but only if it's well written). Nice but nothing special. And personally I'd be completely unable to write as a part of a team.

Evan Dorkin is a great indie comic writer who collaborates with his wife Sarah Dyer whenever he's credited with writing something for TV, like Space Ghost or Shin Chan.

All of Dario Argento's truly great horror films were done while he was engaged to Daria Nicoldi (I don't feel like spell checking), and ever since they broke up after "Opera" in 1987, he's more or less been remaking the same movie a dozen times. I think she came up with most of the story for "Suspiria" and "Inferno", aka the unfinished "3 Mothers Trilogy", so I hold out hope that they'll get back together long enough to produce "Mother of Tears" someday.

And Fritz Lang, the great eyepatched German director who made the transition from silent films to talkies better than anyone else, worked with his wife Thea von Harbou on a lot of his best films. She probably wrote all of his "Metropolis", the first true scifi film.
They had a truly disturbing break-up though: when the Nazis started cracking down on all German media, he took the hint and got his ass to the States, while she stayed behind and became one of the 3rd Reich's greatest artistic collaborators!

Man, that hadta' hurt.

Incidentally, the Fullmetal Alchemist movie explains that Fritz was the inspiration for the character of President/Fuehrer Bradley.

And then there's Jefferton's only married news team...