24, 2013 file photo, author Jackie Collins arrives at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing and After Party in West Hollywood, Calif. It came at the same time that her sister hit the height of her own fame on "Dynasty." In this Feb. "I pause for a few moments and said, 'Thank you.'"Ĭollins followed in the 1970s with books like "The World is Full of Divorced Women" and "Lovers & Gamblers."īy the 1980s, she had moved to Los Angeles and turned out the 1983 novel she is still best known for, "Hollywood Wives," which has sold more than 15 million copies. "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. It came out in 1968 and became a scandalous best-seller, banned in Australia and condemned by romance writer Barbara Cartland. I try to make it erotic, too."īorn 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. Sex is a driving force in the world so I don't think it's unusual that I write about sex. Is it going to be my mom? My children? A lot of people say to me, 'Oh, I read your books under a cover with a flashlight when I was really young and I learned everything I know about sex from you.'. "As a writer, you can never think about who is going to read your books.
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