A biography of one of the most successful authors of the 20th century. She had a genius for producing undemanding yet titillating narratives that grew out of an adolescent daydream, yet her fictions were firmly rooted in her own experience.
Critics balked at the Gothic excesses of her plots and the sexually bizarre adventures of her characters, which they saw as products of the feverish imagination of an unmarried woman with little experience of the world. Yet all Mazo's fictions were firmly rooted in her own experience.
Critics balked at the Gothic excesses of her plots and the sexually bizarre adventures of her characters, which they saw as products of the feverish imagination of an unmarried woman with little experience of the world. Yet all Mazo's fictions were firmly rooted in her own experience.