One title on her list:
The Love MachineRead about Number One on Collins' list.
by Jacqueline Susann
Simon & Schuster, 1969
Jacqueline Susann was the first female author who got out there and wrote popular fiction that could compete with the million-selling big boys. Her novels featured plenty of sex, some hard-hitting women, the truth about recreational drugs -- and all of it wrapped up in a hell of a story. "The Love Machine" concerns an industrial-strength womanizer named Robin Stone who drinks straight vodka and runs a television network. Susann managed to capture the truth about Hollywood way before the tabloids did. The novel shows her at the top of her game, in my mind -- possibly because I know some of the people she based her characters on, and when the book came out they were furious!
--Marshal Zeringue
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