Publisher's Synopsis
This biography of Jacqueline Susann aims to discover the woman behind the legends and lies whose life was said to be flamboyant and outrageous.;At the age of fifty, she saw herself as a failure and wrote a novel that would enter the "Guiness Book of World Records" as one of the best-selling novels of all time - "Valley of the Dolls". From this, she achieved worldwide fame, becoming a celebrity to a degree that no writer had ever known before, and in her few remaining years she became one of the richest self-made women in the world - a millionaire many times over.;Barbara Seaman is the author of "The Doctor's Case against the Pill", "Free and Female" and "Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones".
