Linda Michaels
Linda Michaels is a pseudonym for Marilyn Sylvia Wasserman (later, Julie Ellis), born in 1933, in Columbus, Georgia. As a young woman, she acted Off-Broadway, while also writing plays as well as radio and television scripts. In the early 1960s, to help support her family, she began writing pulp fiction under a variety of pseudonyms, creating nearly a hundred works, including several classic examples of lesbian pulp fiction. In the early 1970s through her death in 2006, She wrote 59 successful historical sagas and romantic suspense novels under the name Julie Ellis. She was a dedicated conservationist and advocate of social justice.
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Newly arrived in New York City, a naïve young woman on the make finds that her innocuous department store job is an entre into the world of syndicate gambling that soon ensnares her. Numbers Girl, a 1961 novel is an example of single working women trapped in a social structure that provides few options for independence.