Category: Autobiographical Fiction

Jo Sinclair | Wasteland | Wasteland is the story of Jacob Braunowitz, a young Jewish man who, tortured by self-doubts and nightmare fears, turns his back on his heritage, his h

Joanne Winning | The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson | Dorothy Richardson’s thirteen-volume opus of autobiographical fiction, Pilgrimage, follows the entire are of an independent woman’s life and is consid

Diana Fredericks; Diana Frederics | Diana |

This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and

Djuna Barnes | Ladies Almanack | Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. T

Diana Frederics; Julie Abraham | Diana |

This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and

Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and si

Djuna Barnes; Cheryl J. Plumb | Nightwood | The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs i

Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in t

Andrea Freud Loewenstein | The Worry Girl | Part reconstructed autobiography, part truthful short story, part coming-of-age-coming-out novel, this is a poignant collection of related stories abo

Jane Bowles | Two Serious Ladies | Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in t