Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann was an American novelist and actress. Her novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, The Love Machine (1969) and Once Is Not Enough (1973), Susann became the first author to have three novels top The New York Times Best Seller list consecutively.

20 August 1918

Born on the same birth day (20 August): Adamantios Androutsopoulos • Al Roker • Anne Evans (soprano) • David O. Russell • Héctor Landázuri • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Macauley Chrisantus • Mikio Naruse • Misha Collins • Raymond Poincaré • Roger Wolcott Sperry • Salvatore Quasimodo • Slavcho Shokolarov • Vasily Aksyonov

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