Author Event - Laurie Powers

Author Laurie Powers will discuss her book, Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine, which is the story of Daisy Bacon, a brilliant businesswoman, feminist, editor, and writer who lived in Port Washington from 1950 until her death in 1986. Daisy gained her fame as the editor of Love Story Magazine, a pulp fiction magazine which, in the late 1920s, was arguably the biggest selling, most profitable romance magazine of its time. Over her twenty-three year career at Street & Smith publishers, she was manager of seven other periodicals. Daisy was also a feminist who continually campaigned for the right of women to have equal footing in both the business world and in their love lives. Laurie Powers spent seven years researching Daisy’s life and will discuss Daisy’s life and the fascinating world of pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Queen of the Pulps has now been nominated for the Popular Culture Association’s Susan Koppelman Award for work published in women’s studies. Books will be available for purchase and signing.