Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held
the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, hig
h-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by
storm when it was first published, fifty years ago. Never had a book been so fra
nk about sex, drugs and show business.