Autobiography/Biography

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

Minnie Bruce Pratt | S/He | Minnie Bruce Pratt expands the boundaries of gender and its theory in these sophisticated lyrical vignettes sited at the crossroads of feminist analys

Paul D. Cain | Leading The Parade | Paul Cain has artfully portrayed several dozen women and men who have enhanced queer life in America. These are our — Jim Sears, author of Lonely Hun

Rosie O’Donnell | Find Me | Part memoir, part mystery, ‘Find Me’ is a tale of a friendship between a troubled young woman and a celebrity obsessed with helping her. Rosie O’Donne

Marianne Brandis | Finding Words | With remarkable candor, Brandis tells of her war-damaged childhood in Holland and of her experience of being the perpetual outsider as an immigrant to

Michael Baker | Our Three Selves: A Life Of Radclyffe Hall | Radclyffe Hall remains today perhaps the most famous of British lesbians, above all for The Well of Loneliness, which was banned as ‘obscene’ in a sen

Bia Lowe | Splendored Thing | Bia Lowe’s Splendored Thing is a memoir and a paean to love told in a series of exquisitely written personal essays that follow one woman’s understand

Diana Souhami | Gluck | Her torrid personal life shocked her prominent and wealthy family, who nonetheless allowed her to live in style and pursue her art. In the 1920s and 3