Original paperback edition. THE BOOK YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Twenty-five men and one beautiful woman got together to produce the most sensational bestseller of the year. Naked Came the Stranger "COMBINES THE TORRID PROSE OF HAROLD ROBBINS, JACQUELINE SUSANN AND A HOST OF LESSER FIGURES. NO WONDER. FOR, AS IT TURNS OUT, PENELOPE ASHE IS A PSEUDONYM FOR TWENTY-FIVE NEWSDAY WRITERS." NEWSWEEK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_StrangerNaked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to "Penelope Ashe," it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady. McGrady's intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors' expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book's popularity. 
 
Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary 
culture had become so base—with the best-seller lists dominated by the likes of 
Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann—that any book could succeed if enough sex 
was thrown in. To test his theory, in 1966 McGrady recruited a team of Newsday 
colleagues (according to Andreas Schroder, nineteen men and five women) to 
collaborate on a sexually explicit novel with no literary or social value 
whatsoever. McGrady co-edited the project with Harvey Aronson, and among the 
other collaborators were well-known writers including 1965 Pulitzer Prize 
winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene, and journalist 
Marilyn Berger(the "one beautiful woman" above). 
 
The group wrote the book as a deliberately inconsistent 
hodge-podge, with each chapter written by a different author. Some of the 
chapters had to be heavily edited, because they were originally too well 
written. The book was submitted for publication under the pseudonym 
"Penelope Ashe". (She was portrayed by Billie Young, McGrady's own 
sister-in-law, for photographs and meetings with publishers.) 
 
The publisher, Lyle Stuart, was an independent publisher 
then known for controversial books, many with sexual content. According to 
Stuart, he had appropriated the cover photo (a kneeling nude woman with very 
long hair down her back, photographed from behind) from a Hungarian nudist 
magazine; the model and photographer later demanded and received payment. 
 
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