Joan Theresa Garrity (born January 15, 1934[1]) is an American author, best known as the author ofThe Sensuous Woman.
Garrity was raised inLee's Summit, Missouri,[2] and studied atPalm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisherLyle Stuart and published a book about shopping in New York.
In 1969 she published, under the pseudonym of "J.",The Sensuous Woman, subtitled "the first how-to book for the female who yearns to be all woman". It was also published asThe Way to Become the Sensuous Woman. The book spent eight weeks at No. 1 on theNew York Times bestseller list and nearly a year on the list overall.[3] In later editions, she used the name Terry Garrity. A spoken-word record album was made in 1969, based on the book, calledJ – The Way To Become A Sensuous Woman.[4][5]
In 1977, she publishedTotal Loving: how to love and be loved for the rest of your life, and in 1984,Story of "J": the author of The Sensuous Woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success, with her brother John Garrity as co-author. In this book she and her brother discuss how she coped withdepression.[6]
Living in South Florida, Garrity has several new projects underway with expected publication dates in 2024 and 2025.[citation needed]
