Ingeborg Day
Ingeborg Day | |
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Born | Ingeborg Seiler November 6, 1940 9½ Weeks |
Spouse | Dennis Day (before 1963 – before 1978) Donald Sweet (m. 1991) |
Children | 2 |
Ingeborg Day (née Seiler; November 6, 1940 – May 18, 2011) was an Austrian–American author who wrote the semi-autobiographical erotic novel Nine and a Half Weeks which she published under the pseudonym Elizabeth McNeill and which was made into the 1986 film of the same name starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.[1]
Life
Day was born in Graz, Austria, in November 1940. Her father, Ernst Seiler, was a member of the Nazi SS organization. She spent the last two years of the war on her grandmother's farm.
In 1957, as a high school student, she participated in the
Day left her husband and moved to Manhattan with artist
In 1991, she married Donald Sweet, a man 14 years her senior. They moved to Ashland, Oregon, shortly after the wedding.
She died by suicide on May 18, 2011, aged 70.[4] Her husband died four days later.[5]
Books
- Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair (1978, E. P. Dutton)
- Ghost Waltz: A Memoir (1980, Viking Press)
References
- ^ Sarah Weinman (November 2012). "Who Was the Real Woman Behind "Nine and a Half Weeks"?". The New Yorker.
- ^ Elizabeth McNeill, 1978, Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair
- ^ Ingeborg Day, 1980, Ghost Waltz
- ^ "Ingeborg Sweet Obituary – Ashland, Oregon – Tributes.com". www.tributes.com.
- ^ "Donald Sweet Obituary – Ashland, Oregon – Tributes.com". www.tributes.com.