Autobiography/Biography

Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | ‘ Solitude… je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n’aime pas comme ils aiment… Je mourrai comme ils meurent ‘, écr

Simon Goldhill | A Very Queer Family Indeed | “We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.” So begins A

Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa

Leslie Brody | Sometimes You Have To Lie | ‘The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh’s masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation a

Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century’s first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake an

Jane Gilmour | Colette’s France | French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the ren

Mackenzi Lee | Bygone Badass Broads | Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women f

Sarah Prager | Rainbow Revolutionaries | One of Time Out’s “LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month,” this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes