Owens, Iris
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Variants
- Klein, Iris
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1929
Death Date
- 2008
Associated Locale
- United States
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Her Hope Diamond refuses, 1984:CIP t.p. (Iris Owens)
- found: LC manual auth. cd. for Daimler, Harriet(Harriet Daimler is pseud. of Iris Owens)
- found: New York Review Books WWW site, Sept. 1, 2017(Iris Owens (née Klein) (1929-2008) was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a professional gambler. She attended Barnard 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, and supported herself by producing pornography (under the name of Harriet Daimler) for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. Back in the United States, Owens wrote After Claude, which came out in 1973. A second novel, Hope Diamond Refuses, loosely based on her marriage to an Iranian prince, was published in 1984) - https://www.nyrb.com/collections/iris-owens
LC Classification
- PS3554.A3
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Change Notes
- 1983-11-15: new
- 2017-09-06: revised
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