Jacqueline Susann

Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a euphemism for pills, and was created by Susann. The term dolls also represents the women in the novel and their mishandling by the patriarchal world in which they are "played" by and dealt with as …

Once Is Not Enough is a 1973 novel by Jacqueline Susann. It was the #2 best-selling novel of 1973 in the United States, and was the basis for the 1975 film of the same name.

Dolores is Jacqueline Susann's last novel. It is a thinly-veiled presentation on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was published in 1976. A condensed version of the novel was published in the Ladies' Home Journal, under the title "Jackie by Jackie." When her severe illness prevented Susann from completing Dolores, …

Yargo is a science fiction romance novel by Jacqueline Susann. Her husband found it among her things after her death and he had it published by Bantam Books on February 28, 1979. The original name for the novel was: YARGO: A Love Story. Yargo tells the story of Janet Cooper, a young woman from Avalon, N.J. who is …