Received the following off-list from someone who contacted
Jeffery Marks, Craig Rice's authorized biographer:
"The Gypsy Rose Lee books as far as I could discern (and I
dug deep) were written by Gypsy. She actually lived w/W.H.
Auden for a summer while writing G-String, and most likely
had help w/writing from him
(among others). She and Craig were friends. So it's not
beyond reason that Craig helped w/plotting, characters,
twists, etc. But typically if Craig was involved in a
project, everyone knew about it and Craig never wrote a word
(and there's not a word at her agent's) about writing
G-string.
Ironically, I found 3 people who at one point or another took
credit for G-string (Craig was one of them, the fiction
editor at Harpers Bazaar was another). Mother Finds a Body
failed miserably -- and NO ONE took credit for that
one.
After all the hub-bub about the writing of the 2 mysteries,
Gypsy made sure she had plenty of witnesses to see her write
her own memoirs (the basis for the musical Gypsy). I got
independent verification of that. So it does likely seem that
she wrote her own mysteries.
There's more detail in my biography of Craig (WHO WAS THAT
LADY?)"
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, VA
Judas is looking for a few femme fatales for it's next issue:
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
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