Jackie Collins Biography

Fast Facts

• After losing friends to AIDS, she began working with organizations such as AIDS Project Los Angeles to help those suffering from the disease
• Worked with Face the World to help women's shelters
• Briefly worked as a stage singer and appeared alongside a young Des O'Connor on a Lonnie Donegan tour of the UK
• Quote: "I love the desert because I always have this fantasy about what bodies are buried there, what happened in the old days․"
• Quote: "Girls should always have a career․ You have no power if you don't have a career․"
• A number of her novels have been adapted into films and television mini-series
• Dozens of her novels have appeared on the bestsellers list of "The New York Times․"
• After being expelled from high school, she threw her school uniform into the Thames River
• Held both British and American citizenship, receiving the former by birth and the latter in 1960
• Her idea of a perfect day was writing all day, then watching Tivo all evening