Friday, 25 September 2015

Jackie Collins, Best-Selling Novelist of Hollywood, Dies at 77

Jackie Collins, who wrote the kind of novels that tweedy English professors typically ignore or sniff at — sex-filled, escapist, utterly unpretentious — but that millions of readers devour and teenagers used to read by flashlight under the covers at night, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 77.
The cause was breast cancer, her family said in a statement on the author’s website.
“Jackie Collins is one of the world’s top-selling novelists,” the website says, boasting that her 30 or so books have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries while giving readers “an unrivaled insider’s knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives (and loves) of the rich, famous, and infamous!”
Interviewed by The Associated Press in 2011, Ms. Collins herself said: “Sex is a driving force in the world, so I don’t think it’s unusual that I write about sex. I try to make it erotic, too.”
Indeed, her first novel, “The World Is Full of Married Men,” was so steamy that for a time it was banned in Australia and South Africa after its publication in 1968. Ms. Collins gleefully recounted in a magazine interview a confrontation with the romance writer Barbara Cartland, who called the book “filthy and disgusting” and blamed her “for all the perverts in England.”
“Thank you,” Ms. Collins said.
Ms. Collins wrote in longhand on white printer paper or yellow legal pads, her output suggesting that she did not agonize over each noun and verb. Some of Ms. Collins’s other books, whose titles were more or less self-explanatory, were “Hollywood Wives,” “Lovers and Players,” “Hollywood Wives: The New Generation,” “Hollywood Husbands,” “Hollywood Kids” and “Hollywood Divorces.” Many of her novels were adapted for movies and television series.
“On the beach and in the bedroom, perhaps no one plays with the heart — and other body parts — as successfully as scandal queen Jackie Collins,” a reviewer for The Philadelphia Daily News wrote of her second novel, “The Stud,” published in 1969.
In a 2007 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Collins was asked which authors influenced her work. She mentioned two writers seldom, if ever, mentioned in the same sentence: Charles Dickens and Mickey Spillane.

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