Jo Copeland would often throw parties, which might include guests as "Joan Crawford or Tyrone Power -- Lois and her brother were expected to remain in their rooms with their supper trays, blissfully unseen and unheard.
[3] In 1970 Lois Gould published her first novel, Such Good Friends, about a woman who learns of her husband's many affairs only after he has lapsed into a coma while in the hospital.
Such Good Friends was on The New York Times Best Seller list for seven weeks and was subsequently adapted for film by Otto Preminger, released in 1971.
[3] Her novel Final Analysis, published in 1974, appears to be partly autobiographical; it features a writer falling in love with her former psychotherapist.
[10] Gould's 1998 memoir of life with her mother, Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion,[1] enjoyed widespread critical praise.