Sex goddess, Hollywood star, transgressive playwright, author, blues singer, and vaudeville brat—Mae West remains the twentieth century's greatest comedienne, a woman who blazed her own trail through Broadway plays such as Sex and The Constant Sinner and movie classics such as She Done Him Wrong, Klondike Annie, and I'm No Angel. Acclaimed biographer Simon Louvish brings Mae to vibrant life, charting her seven decades in show business, from teenage summer stock to her last reincarnation as 1960s gay icon and grande dame of Hollywood survivors.
War West: It Ain't No Sin is the first biography to make use of Mae's personal papers, and Louvish uses this new material to shed light on one of comedy's most lasting stars.