Xaviera Hollander: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a former call girl and madam. She was born Vera de Vries in Soerabaja, Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) to a Jewish father and Christian mother. She is best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0-06-001416-4). The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. It was made into a film starring Lynn Redgrave. Hollander has since written a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam. Her latest book Child No More is the heartfelt story of losing her own mother. For many years, she wrote an advice column for Penthouse magazine called Call Me Madam. For several years in the 1970s, Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married a Canadian an...