Terry Garrity
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Joan Theresa Garrity (born January 15, 1934[1]) is an American author, best known as the author of The Sensuous Woman.
Background and education
Garrity was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri,[2] and studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisher Lyle Stuart and published a book about shopping in New York.
Career
In 1969 she published, under the pseudonym of "J.", The Sensuous Woman, subtitled "the first how-to book for the female who yearns to be all woman". It was also published as The Way to Become the Sensuous Woman. The book spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and nearly a year on the list overall.[3] In later editions, she used the name Terry Garrity. A spoken-word record album was made in 1969, based on the book, called J – The Way To Become A Sensuous Woman.[4][5]
In 1977, she published Total Loving: how to love and be loved for the rest of your life, and in 1984, Story of "J": the author of The Sensuous Woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success, with her brother John Garrity as co-author. In this book she and her brother discuss how she coped with depression.[6]
Living in South Florida, Garrity has several new projects underway with expected publication dates in 2024 and 2025.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References
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- ↑ John Bear, The No. 1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago, Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992
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Further reading
- Bill Althaus, "Putting 'J' behind Her: For Terry Garrity, Success Was Almost Fatal", Kansas City Magazine, October 1984
External links
- Portrait of Terry [Joan Theresa] Garrity in playful pose, 1973. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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- American relationships and sexuality writers
- 20th-century American women writers
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- People from Lee's Summit, Missouri
- People with bipolar disorder
- American women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women
- 1940s births
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