Post by omegalogos on Sept 19, 2015 23:05:21 GMT -6
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'Hollywood Wives' novelist Jackie Collins dies [nola.com]
LOS ANGELES — Jackie Collins, the bestselling author of dozens of novels including "Hollywood Wives" that dramatized the lifestyles of the rich and the treacherous, died Saturday.
Collins died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, publicist Melody Korenbrot told The Associated Press. Collins was 77.
"She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades," Collins' family said in a statement. "She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words."
Unlike her older sister Joan Collins, the "Dynasty" actress who was a direct part of the 1980s Hollywood glitterati, Jackie Collins chose to document LA lives in her pulpy, page-turning fiction.
Collins died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, publicist Melody Korenbrot told The Associated Press. Collins was 77.
"She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades," Collins' family said in a statement. "She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words."
Unlike her older sister Joan Collins, the "Dynasty" actress who was a direct part of the 1980s Hollywood glitterati, Jackie Collins chose to document LA lives in her pulpy, page-turning fiction.
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Personal Disclosure: I have never read any of her books but how could I not know about her!
May she rip!
Born Jacqueline Jill Collins in London in 1937, her first novel, "The World is Full of Married Men," was a story of sex and show business set in "Swinging London" in the mid-1960s. It came out in 1968 and became a scandalous best-seller, banned in Australia and condemned by romance writer Barbara Cartland.
"Barbara Cartland said to me, 'Oh, Miss Collins, your books are filthy and disgusting and you are responsible for all the perverts in England,'" Collins told Porter Magazine in 2014. "I pause for a few moments and said, 'Thank you.'"
"Barbara Cartland said to me, 'Oh, Miss Collins, your books are filthy and disgusting and you are responsible for all the perverts in England,'" Collins told Porter Magazine in 2014. "I pause for a few moments and said, 'Thank you.'"
