Biography: Gail Palmer was claimed to be a producer and director of pornographic movies in the U.S. during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 2007 book The Book of Vice, author Peter Sagal revealed that he was hired as a ghost writer for Gail Palmer, researched and interviewed her, and found that she did not actually direct the movies attributed to her but was a front for her boyfriend, porn distributor Harry Mohney. Palmer's autobiography had also been ghost written.