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Elaine Dundy

Posted at 8:01AM Thursday 08 May 2008

Elaine Dundy, the American writer who has died aged 86, shot to the top of the best-seller lists in 1958 with The Dud Avocado, a novel which she wrote in an attempt to save her marriage to the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan; but her literary success became an added source of friction in a relationship that was already fraught owing to Tynan's fondness for the lash.

Obituary in The Telegraph

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