Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die .
Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel.
Said the unblushing authoress of the unblushing Peyton Place: Martin "was the only man in my world who made me feel intensely female.