Garrity was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri,[2] and studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida.
A spoken-word record album was made in 1969, based on the book, called J – The Way To Become A Sensuous Woman.
[4][5] In 1977, she published Total Loving: how to love and be loved for the rest of your life, and in 1984, Story of "J": the author of The Sensuous Woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success, with her brother John Garrity as co-author.
In this book she and her brother discuss how she coped with depression.
[6] Living in South Florida, Garrity has several new projects underway with expected publication dates in 2024 and 2025.