The Picture of Dorian Gray biography, "Oscar Wilde" (1989), the literary critic Richard Ellmann said that: Wilde does not name the book, but at his trial he conceded that it was, or almost [was], Huysmans's "À rebours" ... to a correspondent, he wrote that he had played a 'fantastic variation' upon "À rebours", and someday must write it down. The references in "Dorian Gray" to specific chapters are deliberately inaccurate. Some commentators have suggested that "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was influenced by the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's (anonymously published) first novel "Vivian Grey" (1826) as, "a kind of homage from one outsider to
Dorian Leigh food shops, according to a profile in "The New York Times" by Enid Nemy. She also worked with Martha Stewart in the early 1980s. Dorian wrote two cookbooks, "Pancakes: From Flapjacks to Crepes" (1987) and "Doughnuts: Over 3 Dozen Crullers, Fritters and Other Treats" (1994) at the age of 77. In 1980, Dorian published an autobiography, "The Girl Who Had Everything" (Doubleday). According to Dorian, she wrote her autobiography for her late son: "I really wrote it for Kim, who will never read it. But perhaps other Kims and their parents may learn from my unhappy experiences". Dorian died in