![]() ![]() ![]() The first to resurrect Jacqueline Susann as a pop-culture deity was Barbara Seaman, whose 1987 biography, the definitive Lovely Me, was reprinted in 1996. It has taken longer than the apotheosis of the Beatles or the deification of Andy Warhol, but Susann’s nervy prophecy has finally come to pass. No wonder she dared to proclaim to a Boston newspaper critic, who imagined he was hoisting her on her own petard, “Yeah, I think I’ll be remembered. 1 spot on The New York Times’s best-seller list. Not only did she write Valley of the Dolls (1966)-registered in The Guinness Book of World Records in the 1970s as the best-selling novel of all time (30 million copies sold)-she also became, with her next two novels, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not Enough (1973), the first author ever to have three consecutive books catapult to the No. In her 12 remaining years-the tumor was malignant and a full mastectomy was performed the day after Christmas-Susann more than made good on her dream. I can’t die without leaving something-something big. on December 25, 1962, Jacqueline Susann-a fading TV actress with an unemployed husband, an autistic son in a mental hospital, and a lump in her right breast-began to scribble in a notebook. ![]()
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