Valley of the Dolls
Novel
By: Jacqueline Susann
Date: 1966
Source: Susann, Jacqueline. Valley of the Dolls. New York: Grove Press, 1966, 377–382.
About the Author: Jacqueline Susann (1918–1974), after the 1963 publication of a humorous book of sketches about her poodle, Every Night, Josephine!, found lasting celebrity as a writer. Valley of the Dolls was a publishing sensation when it appeared in 1966 and ranked as the best-selling novel of all-time by the end of the decade. Susann followed Valley of the Dolls with two more best-sellers, The Love Machine (1970) and Once Is Not Enough (1973).
Introduction
Although she had written some plays in the 1940s and scored a major success with the book Every Night, Josephine! in 1963, Jacqueline Susann was an unlikely candidate as a novelist. After undergoing surgery for breast cancer in...
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