Lois W. Banner | Intertwined Live | ‘A biography of two eminent twentieth-century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard Co
Mercedes De Acosta | Here Lies the Heart | A murky combination of refinement, confusion, and a desperate faith in the occult, is this autobiography of Mercedes de Acosta, writer, society woman,
Emily Bingham | Irrepressible | ‘Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, sh
Paul Russell | The Gay 100 | What do William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and Oscar Wilde have in common? For one thing, each of their works is most like being dramatized some
Penny Valentine; Vicki Wickham | Dancing With Demons | As a child, in a desperate effort to get the attention of her parents, Mary O’Brien would place her hands on the boiler until they burned. As an adult
Sharon O’Brien | Willa Cather (Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians) | This is the first biography of Willa Cather to explore thoroughly the connections between her artistic and her psychological growth.
Harold Acton | Nancy Mitford | Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the Mitfords. A relentless tease, she wrote subtle but wildly satirical novels such as Love in a Cold
Lea DeLaria; Maggie Cassella | Lea’s Book Of Rules For The World | Rule #10: Learn all the rules…then break them. Lea DeLaria has been breaking rules all her life. Now she offers some of her own…. Cross Howard Ste
Arthur E. Weigall | Sappho of Lesbos | This book is a solid, scholarly and interesting biography of the poetess, complete with “13 reproductions from sketches and photographs.”
Catherine Friend | Sheepish | What do you do when you love your farm but it doesn’t love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherdin
