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Iris Owens


Born
New York, New York, The United States
Genre
Fiction, Pornography


Iris Owens (née Klein) (1929–2008) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of a professional gambler. She attended Brooklyn 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. Owens supported herself by producing pornography, or DBs as she referred to Dirty Books, (under the name of Harriet Daimler) for Maurice Girodias’s Olympia Press. She also married an Iranian prince. Resettled in NYC, Owens wrote After Claude (1973). A second novel, Hope Diamond Refuses, loosely based on her second marriage, was published in 1984.

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Average rating: 3.51 · 1,415 ratings · 279 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
After Claude
3.52 avg rating — 1,359 ratings — published 1973 — 16 editions
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Hope Diamond Refuses
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Darling
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1956 — 12 editions
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The Woman Thing
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions
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Innocence
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The Organisation
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2.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions
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Burn, Bury & Hex: A Sophia ...
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Embracing Slow Fashion: The...
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“I hardly ever dream, which is probably a reflection of the fact that I live my life fully and consciously. I solve my problems while awake and, as a result, spend my sleeping hours resting, not receiving inane messages.”
― Iris Owens, After Claude
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“. Even though I had suffered through a ghastly Saturday, I had overlooked the coming of Sunday.”
― Iris Owens, After Claude
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“Even though I had suffered through a ghastly Saturday, I had overlooked”
― Iris Owens, After Claude
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