Nile Southern (born December 29, 1960), is an American filmmaker and writer. He is noted for his book ''The Candy Men'', a "biography of a book", about the writing and publishing of the comic sex novel ''

Candy Candy, alternatively called sweets or lollies, is a Confectionery, confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called ''sugar confectionery'', encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum ...

'', by

Terry Southern Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to ...

and

Mason Hoffenberg Mason Kass Hoffenberg (December 1922 – 1 June 1986) was an American writer best known for having written the satiric novel ''Candy (Southern and Hoffenberg novel), Candy'' in collaboration with Terry Southern. Biography Hoffenberg was born ...

. He is the son of writer

and literary editor Carol Southern.

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