Grace Metallious also wrote Return to Peyton Place.
The Minds of Billy Milligan, an account of a man who evaded conviction by claiming to have multiple personalities, is a true story.
On the other hand, the claim about having twenty four distinct personalities, I strongly suspect, isn’t. I think it’s interesting that the first reviewer I found cited in a Google search was Flora Rheta Schreiber, author of Sibyl. Though it got very little attention, it later came out that the real-life Sibyl had a simple eating disorder. The colorful accounts of her multiple personalities were a product of her therapist’s hypnotic techniques.
You know, I wondered about that. I picked up that book in a Goodwill store, and was just simply amused for hours on end. But when I serached for other writings by him, I couldn’t find any. I just assumed they were all out of print.
Very good, that novel. Although, Annie-Xmas, his name is H. F. Saint.
His full name is Harry F. Saint. What little personal information I’ve found suggest that he was a populizar of sqaush and an business executive in NYC. He’s 62 now, so there’s still a chance that he’ll publish more.
Fort’s novel The Outcast Manufacturers was published in 1909 and is in fact available here as a hypertext edition. Of course Fort also wrote The Book of the Damned , New Lands, Lo! and Wild Talents which weren’t(??) fiction.
Confederacy of Dunces is the name, should anyone be interested. It also won the Pulitzer. I read it for the first time a few weeks ago. What an absolutely awesome and incredibly funny book.
