The Illuminating Diary Of A Professional Lady

LOOS, Anita

[217] pp.

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers

Seventeenth Printing

1926

7 5/8″ x 5 3/8″

Intimately Illustrated by Ralph Barton

Classic novel of Jazz Age frivolity.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady[a] (1925) is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story follows the dalliances of a young blonde gold-digger and flapper named Lorelei Lee during “the bathtub-gin era of American history.” Published the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Carl Van Vechten’s Firecrackers, the lighthearted work is one of several notable 1925 American novels focusing on the carefree hedonism of the Jazz Age