Journal editor Lenore Hershey had asked Susann to write a piece about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ("Jackie S on Jackie O"), but Susann was unwilling to devote her time to research as she was seriously ill with cancer. Susann wrote the story for the Ladies' Home Journal, and it was first published in that magazine's February 1974 issue. The book, in actuality a novella, is by far the shortest fiction of Susann's career, at just 201 pages. Finally, Dolores agrees to marry a fabulously wealthy shipping tycoon, who leaves her on their wedding night to go to his mistress. After a year in seclusion, Dolores takes tentative steps back into the world, by having affairs first with a screenwriter, and then with Barry Haines, an attorney who likes rich women, but doesn't consider Dolores-with just $30,000 a year-quite rich enough. President James Ryan, is gunned down in New Orleans. The beautiful and fashionable Dolores Cortez Ryan is widowed when her husband, U.S. It first appeared in the February 1974 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal, seven months before Susann's death from cancer. Published by William Morrow in 1976, it is a roman à clef based on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. Dolores is the final novel of American writer Jacqueline Susann.
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