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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional LadyThe first edition of the book has the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady on the front of the book jacket. However, the book jacket spine, book Read More..

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Description	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional LadyThe first edition of the book has the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady on the front of the book jacket. However, the book jacket spine, book cover, book spine, and interior title pages all have the title as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. All reprints feature the latter title. is a comic novel written by Anita Loos, first published in 1925. It is one of several famous novels published that year to chronicle the so-called Jazz Age, including Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Van Vechten's Firecrackers. Loos was inspired to write the book after watching a sexy blonde turn intellectual H. L. Mencken into a lovestruck schoolboy. Mencken, a close friend, actually enjoyed the work and saw to it that it was published. Originally published as a magazine series in Harper's Bazaar, it was published as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway best seller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it "The Great American Novel."A sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, was published two years later.
Description	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional LadyThe first edition of the book has the title Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady on the front of the book jacket. However, the book jacket spine, book cover, book spine, and interior title pages all have the title as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. All reprints feature the latter title. is a comic novel written by Anita Loos, first published in 1925. It is one of several famous novels published that year to chronicle the so-called Jazz Age, including Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Van Vechten's Firecrackers. Loos was inspired to write the book after watching a sexy blonde turn intellectual H. L. Mencken into a lovestruck schoolboy. Mencken, a close friend, actually enjoyed the work and saw to it that it was published. Originally published as a magazine series in Harper's Bazaar, it was published as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway best seller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it "The Great American Novel."A sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, was published two years later.

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Name	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
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Authors	Anita Loos
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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