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Patrick Swayze is widely remembered for his iconic roles in films like Dirty Dancing and Ghost, but the actor often reflected that his proudest work wasn’t on the big screen. In one older interview, Swayze revealed that his performance in the television miniseries North and South was the one he considered the greatest of his career.

North and South, directed by Richard T. Heffron and Larry Pearce, follows the story of two friends, Orry Main, played by Swayze, and George Hazard, played by James Read, who meet at the United States Military Academy.

Their friendship is tested as the two men find themselves on opposing sides during the American Civil War.

John Jakes, the bestselling author of historical novels whose books The Bastard and North And South were adapted into highly rated TV movies and miniseries in the 1970s and ’80s, died Saturday at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. He was 90.

His death was announced by his lawyer and literary agent Frank R. Curtis.

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Born on March 31, 1932, in Chicago, Jakes published his first short story at 18, earning $25, and would go on to author more than 80 books in his lifetime that sold more than 120 million copies worldwide.

His breakthrough came in 1974 with the publication of The Bastard, the first in what would become an eight-volume series known as The Kent Family Chronicles. Roughly coinciding with America’s Bicentennial,...