The Janet Dailey Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Her Life and Her Novels

The bestselling woman writer in America, author and literary legend Janet Dailey has written over ninety books in her prolific career and is still going strong. With 300 million copies sold worldwide, her books have been translated into nineteen languages for sale in ninety-eight countries. Clearly she is a phenomenon like no other.
A high school graduate who became a secretary and married her boss, Janet began writing on a dare and has never stopped. A writing star since her first book was published, she has an unparalleled gift for storytelling. And her millions of fans know why. In The Janet Dailey Companion, readers will discover everything they always wanted to know about the real Janet Dailey and her glamorous life. This comprehensive examination of her life and her work is a must-have for anyone who has ever enjoyed a Janet Dailey book. It includes revealing in-depth interviews with her and with the most important people in her life and discusses at length her past, her present, her greatest life influences and interests, and so much more. This fascinating compendium also features an exciting assortment of Janet's own photographs; provides profiles and plot summaries of her books; and is an utterly complete, accurate, and extraordinary companion to all her work.

Greenberg, the editor of the forthcoming The Michael Crichton Companion (Ballantine, 1997), and Massie (Far and Away, Berkley, 1992) use an extended interview format to lead the reader through the thoughts of popular romance author Dailey. Since the authors' work is the result of many hours of unedited audiotapes, the transcription is a tangled web, touching on such unconnected issues as Dailey's writer's block, struggles with Harlequin, and ideas of personal beauty. This is intermingled with responses from the interviewer on her own career and thank yous to Dailey for granting her the opportunity to do the interview. The saving grace of this companion is that it gives a synopsis of each of Dailey's books, but the lack of indexing is a stumbling block. Recommended only for large public libraries.?Betty J. Schaefer, Appleton P.L., Wis.
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