Nancy Friday, author of 'My Secret Garden,' dead at 84

Nancy Friday, a journalist and author whose best-selling My Secret Garden was a landmark compilation of women’s sexual fantasies, has died at age 84.

My Secret Garden- Women’s Sexual Fantasies, explicit letters and interviews gathered by Ms, Friday, was published in 1973 and is widely regarded as the first major book to compile women’s sexual fantasies. It was an era of erotic candor, from Dr. David Reuben’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex(asterisk) (But Were Afraid to Ask) to Erica Jong’s novel Fear of Flying. But Ms. Friday’s book was still shocking, with its graphic detail of everything from rape to bestiality.