Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann was an American author. Her first novel Valley of the Dolls is one of the best selling books of all time. Its success was fueled by an innovative worldwide promotional tour conceived by Susann and her husband, press agent Irving Mansfield. Susanns followup bestsellers, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough, made Susann the first author in history to have threeconsecutive titles on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Jacqueline Susann was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Robert Susann, a portrait painter, and Rose Jans, a schoolteacher. In school, Susann was an intelligent but unmotivated student. She scored the highest on her classs IQ test, 140, prompting her mother to predict that she would someday become a good writer. Susann had other ideasshe wanted to be an actress. Susanns rocky relationship with her mother, as well as her starry eyed view of her roguish father, would later be woven into her novels. Although her parents hoped she would enter college, Susann left for New York City after graduating from West Philadelphia High School in 1936, to pursue an acting career.

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