Biography of jacqueline susann

A little over two decades ago, a book company with a personal of four turned a badly-written mess of a manuscript ("hardly written in English," according to its publisher) into the best-selling novel of all time. "Valley of the Dolls" sold ten million copies altogether, and Jacqueline Susann's next two novels were also fabulously successful -- so successful that one of her old publishers, William Morrow, fryst vatten trying to recapture the magic with this $ biography. 

Jackie Susann's books made money as never before by exploring the sensational excesses of show business as never before, with the help of a formula as old as gossip itself: While you're spelling out the unspeakable things people are doing in juicy detail, cackle over what a pity it is they're destroying themselves. Something kindred is at work in Barbara Seaman's "Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann," an exhumation of this literary monster and publishing star which i

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Jacqueline Susann

American novelist and actress (–)

Jacqueline Susann (August 20, – September 21, ) was an American novelist and actress. Her novel Valley of the Dolls () is one of the best-selling books in publishing history.^[2] With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine () and Once Is Not Enough (), Susann became the first author to have three novels top The New York Times Best Seller list consecutively.^[3]

Early years

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Jacqueline Susan^[1] was born on August 20, , at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania,^[4] the only child of a Jewish couple: Robert Susan, a Wilno, Imperial Russia (now Vilnius, Lithuania)-born portrait painter, and his wife, Rose (née Jans), a public school teacher. It was Rose who added the second "n" to her husband's surname in order to make pronunciation easier for her students; Robert Susan retained the original spelling. Because his surname was never legally changed, his daughter

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Lovely Me by Barbara Seaman

Jacqueline Susann: Her Life and Books

published


[Also featured: Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann published

& How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis, published ]

[From the biography of author Jacqueline Susann]


By the summer of Jackie was one of the most recognizable women in the United States. She was everywhere &#; in magazines and newspapers, on posters in bookstore windows and in buses, and, always, on television. Along with the talk shows there were panel and game shows and even variety shows. Omnipresent as Orwell&#;s Big Brother was that tough, striking showgirl&#;s face: the false eyelashes fluttering beneath white eyeshadow, the bright-orange lips and nails, the wardrobe of dark, lacquered, shoulder-length falls, the vivid Emilio Pucci print dresses, which she finally gave up because, although they &#;packed well&#;, they made her &#;boobs look too big&#;.


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