Kelli O’Hara during a performance of The Bridges of Madison County, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. Bridges turned the unknown writer into a multimillionaire and made Madison County, Iowa, an international tourist attraction. Meryl Streep pauses for interviews in May 1995 during the premiere of The Bridges of Madison County in Burbank, Calif. (Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)The novel prompted couples across the world to marry on Madison County's covered bridges. Waller's seven books include Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, which unseated Bridges on the bestseller list, Border Music, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze and A Thousand County Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County. A musical was made of The Bridges of Madison County in 2014 starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale with a score by Jason Robert Brown, but it closed after just 137 performances on Broadway.

Source: CBC News March 10, 2017 16:52 UTC