5/30/2023 0 Comments A kiss before dying authorSuch is the case for Dorothy Kingship, the daughter of a wealthy copper tycoon. Regardless, college girls did have sex even in those pre- “pill” days, and sometimes found themselves in the situation of hoping their boyfriend would become their husband. Some of these young men came to college with more “experience” and may or may not have been more likely to persuade their female classmates to join them in bed. Young men who had served in WWII were benefitting from the GI bill and were a little older than many of their college classmates. Young women lived in dormitories and some young men lived in rooms rented in town by widows. Young men and women on college campuses smoked and flirted. He would go on to write Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil, and a number of plays including No Time for Sergeants and Deathtrap, a long running comedy/thriller on Broadway.Ī Kiss Before Dying, published in 1953, is set in that timeframe. Ira Levin was only twenty-three when he wrote this now classic mystery/thriller.
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