She is best known as the author of The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity.
Advertisements for the book were deemed obscene leading to the court case Ginzburg v. United States, in which the book's publisher, Ralph Ginzburg was prosecuted and served six months in federal prison for publishing the book.
At the time of her death from a heart attack at age 70 in Pasadena, Texas, she had been using the assumed name Maxine Sanini for more than two decades.
An ebook of Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, subtitled Definitive Edition, edited by Toni Savant, one of Serett's five daughters, and containing a biography of the author, was published and posted on Amazon.com on May 26, 2012.
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