Jacqueline Susann plan of treatment and subsequent prognosis. Despite the grueling treatment, Susann's cancer spread, and she entered Doctors Hospital for the last time, on August 20, 1974, her fifty-sixth birthday. After days lapsing in and out of a coma, she died on September 21. Her last words to Mansfield were, "Hey, doll, let's get the hell out of here." She was survived by her husband, her son, and her mother. Jacqueline Susann is acknowledged to be the first "brand-name" novelist, a novelist who sells independent of critical attention. With her husband, Irving Mansfield, Susann revolutionized book promotion, and they are widely
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War 484 and 400 had been occupied at a cost of 20 killed in action, and many wounded, by companies of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Infantry in September–October 1966 and then abandoned. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine Karl Marlantes. It was first published by "El Leon Literary Arts" in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of "Atlantic Monthly Press" on March 23, 2010. Marlantes is a graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar. He