Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Society’s Child by Janis Ian

Janis Ian | Society’s Child | Grammy Awardwinning singer and songwriter Janis Ians memoir of her more than forty years in the music business. Janis Ian was catapulted into the spot

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Night Bloom by Mary Cappello

Mary Cappello | Night Bloom | Delicately interweaving the bilingual journals of her grandfather (a southern Italian shoemaker), her mother’s poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwor

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Lesbian Crossroads by Ruth Baetz

Ruth Baetz | Lesbian Crossroads | Synopsis: Ruth Baetze met her first lover in college and lived with her for five years in a very closeted relationship. When that love affair ended. B

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Radclyffe Hall A Woman Called John by Sally Cline

Sally Cline | Radclyffe Hall A Woman Called John | She’s best known as the author of The Well of Loneliness, ‘the one lesbian novel everyone has heard of,’ feminist scholar Sally Cline wittily r

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Ruth Davidson And The Resurgence Of The Scottish Tories by Andrew Liddle

Andrew Liddle | Ruth Davidson And The Resurgence Of The Scottish Tories | Ruth Davidson has enjoyed a stratospheric rise to prominence within the Scottish Conservative Party, winning her surprise leadership victory an astoni

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A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle

Joan Nestle | A Restricted Country | A proud working-class woman, an ‘out’ lesbian long before the Rainbow revolution, Joan Nestle has stood at the forefront of American freedom struggles

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Adventures of the Mind by Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney | Adventures of the Mind | Every Friday, for half a decade beginning in 1909, whenever she was in Paris, Natalie Clifford Barney hosted the one of the most brilliant internation

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A Gift of Age by Arden Eversmeyer; Margaret Purcell

Arden Eversmeyer; Margaret Purcell | A Gift of Age | Collection of biographies from lesbians based on interviews taken for the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project.

It’s hard to imagine toda

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Flying by Kate Millett

Kate Millett | Flying | ‘In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after ‘Sexual Politics’

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Your John by Joanne Glasgow; Radclyffe Hall

Joanne Glasgow; Radclyffe Hall | Your John | In 1934, after 20 years of a mostly monogamous relationship with Una Troubridge, Radclyffe Hall, author of the notorious lesbian classic The Well o