In the early 1960s, she wrote a slender little memoir about her life with her poodle, Josephine, and John Steinbeck's literary agent took her on as a client. She did enjoy exposure as "the Schiffli Troubadour," touting embroidered clothes on local television, but that was not stardom. She didn't make it there, or anywhere - not as an actress, not as a model, not as a playwright. She came to New York in 1936, at the age of 18, after winning a beauty contest in her hometown of Philadelphia, determined to make it. Susann is scorned because she didn't bother to hide her desire to be a Celebrity - by any means necessary. Do I equate Jackie with Emily Dickinson or Virginia Woolf? Certainly not, but how about Dreiser? His style was also clumsy and his characters contemptible." "Loyal to her friends, malicious to her enemies, Jackie was outrageous, original and brave. "I love her," she wrote in "Lovely Me's" preface.
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