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Joan Theresa Garrity (1940 – January 30, 2022) was an American author, best known as the author of ''
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Background and education

Garrity was raised in
Lee's Summit, Missouri Lee's Summit is a city located within the counties of Jackson (primarily) and Cass in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. As of the 2020 census its population was 101,108, making it the sixth-largest city in bo ...
, and studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisher Lyle Stuart and published a book about shopping in New York.


Career

In 1969 she published, under the pseudonym of "J.", ''The Sensuous Woman'', subtitled "the first how-to book for the female who yearns to be all woman". It was also published as ''The Way to Become the Sensuous Woman''. The book spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list and nearly a year on the list overall. In later editions, she used the name Terry Garrity. A spoken-word record album was made in 1969, based on the book, called ''J – The Way To Become A Sensuous Woman''. In 1977, she published ''Total Loving: how to love and be loved for the rest of your life'', and in 1984, ''Story of "J": the author of The Sensuous Woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success'', with her brother John Garrity as co-author. In this book she and her brother discuss how she coped with
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References


Further reading

* Bill Althaus, "Putting 'J' behind Her: For Terry Garrity, Success Was Almost Fatal", ''Kansas City Magazine'', October 1984


External links


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