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Iris Owens (nee Klein) (?-2008) was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a professional gambler. Sheattended Barnard College, was briefly married, and then moved to Paris, where she fell in with Alexander Trocchi, the editor of the legendary avant-garde journal Merlin and a notorious heroin addict, and supported herself by producing pornography (under the name of Harriet Daimler) for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. Back in the United States, Owens wroteAfter Claude, which came out in 1973. A second novel,Hope Diamond Refuses, loosely based on her marriage to an Iranian prince, was published in 1984. Emily Prager is a novelist, a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library, and the winner of the ColumbiaGraduate School of Journalism 2000 Online Journalism Award for Commentary. She is at work on a book of essaysfor Random House, entitledSecrets of Shanghai.
Some of the withering put-downs, observations and asides are as beautiful as they are brutal. Best of all, it's very funny; as long as your taste in humour is on the savage side. Tribune
