Talk:Lillian Maxine Serett

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Possible hoaxes cannot be speedied because other people should have the chance to check. see WP:CSDDGG 04:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I encountered this a few days ago. The Ginsburg case is real, but the book is authored by Rey Anthony. There is one note on Powell's Books website by someone representing themselves as Tiffani Parrish, and saying that Maxine Sanini, her grandmother, was the person behind the pen name Rey Anthony. This obviously isn't a reliable source. The note has been copied by an editor to this article, presumably straight from the bookstore website. --Tony Sidaway 10:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I personally knew Maxine Sanini, I knew Ralph Ginzberg and I know Frank Brady who is still active and who worked for Ralph Ginzberg when the book was published, and all of them state that Rey Anthony was a pseudonym for Maxine Sanini and that she wrote the book.

Just because it is not on some website somewhere does not mean that it did not happen.

Welcome to the real world. Sam Sloan 11:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We need something that will be verifiable in, say, ten years. Put it this way: would this article not be better at Rey Anthony and without the identification of the private individual behind the name? What verifiable information would be lost by doing this? --Tony Sidaway 12:02, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would say we should not have an article on Rey Anthony, either, unless the pseudonym can be shown to have been notable for publishing other works. The Supreme Court case over the book might be notable enough for an article... Valrith 21:20, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then Rey Anthony would be a redirect. I agree that we need an article on Ginzburg v. USA. --Tony Sidaway 21:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited the page "Lillian Maxine Serett" to supply missing information and correct a few errors. I knew Maxine Savant ("Rey Anthony") who went by Serett, Sanini and other assumed names. I am in possession of her death certificate, which I have scanned into PDF format for examination of anyone with an encyclopedic need. I am also in contact with her heirs who intend to publish Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity in a modern edition with a Prologue of legal commentary on the Ginsburg case centered around Justice Stewart's dissenting opinion, and an Epilogue of media coverage of the author's subsequent extensive career as a speaker and counselor on sex dysfunction and the sexual rights of women, bolstered by interviews with persons involved with the author at that time. The heirs have written their own family history (a copy is in my possession) of the events of Maxine's life as they experienced them. I am in possession of Savant's original manuscript, a copy of its original 8x11 inch format and a copy of the Ginsburg 4x6 inch casebound (hardcover) edition. It is my opinion that the article with my edits is adequate for the present, but will need to be completely re-evaluated when the modern edition becomes available, when a large body of information on Savant will be publicly verifiable. --Ron Arnold 13:5728, 5 Jan 2010 (UTC)

I have edited the page "Lillian Maxine Serett" to reflect the publication and sale on Amazon.com in Kindle format of the definitive edition of Serett's book, "Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity" by Rey Anthony, pseudonym of Sanini, at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0086BL76Q/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb#reader_B0086BL76Q. The definitive edition contains substantial verifiable material on Sanini. I am the editor in chief at Merril Press, publisher of the definitive edition of the Handbook. I have sourced every fact of importance in the book's preface and epilogue, written by Serett's oldest daughter, Toni Savant, giving a complete biography of Serett and an accurate account of the U.S. Supreme Court case that banned the book. The evidence in the definitive edition indicates to me that the current entry be removed and given a new page on "Rey Anthony" reflecting the massive new information available on Serett. If Wikipedia's judges agree and will contact me, I will be happy to write the new page.Ronarnold (talk) 18:40, 26 May 2012 (UTC)Ron Arnold, 11:36 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a third-party notice of Rey Anthony and her book from historian Kenneth C. Dick in his book, Henry Miller: Colossus of One, "For sheer guts no woman writer of the confessor type can outdo Rey Anthony in her Housewife’s Handbook on Selective Promiscuity." Also a short selection from a vast literature containing references to Anthony and her Handbook.Ronarnold (talk) 05:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)ronarnold[reply]