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The Girls by Diana McLellan

Diana McLellan | The Girls | Diana McLellan reveals the complex and intimate connections that roiled behind the public personae of Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead

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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Bibliography

The Third Rose by John Malcolm Brinnin

John Malcolm Brinnin | The Third Rose | The first detailed biograph including literary criticism, art history, and social history. See also Addison-Wesley (1987 ISBN: 9780201058802) , P. Smi

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The Truth Is … by Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton

Melissa Etheridge; Laura Morton | The Truth Is … | She’s not in Kansas anymore! Melissa Etheridge, the gutsy Midwest girl who grew up to be the heartland’s gift to rock & roll (and a major gay spokeswo

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Too Queer by Victoria A. Brownworth

Victoria A. Brownworth | Too Queer | Q is widely published and highly controversial lesbian journalist Victoria A. Brownworth’s revealing collection exploring the contours of her personal

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Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi | Unbearable Lightness | “I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to ma

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

k. d. lang: All You Get Is Me by Victoria Starr

Victoria Starr | k. d. lang: All You Get Is Me | All You Get is Me uncovers k.d.’s deepest emotions, from a commitment to animal rights that threatened to ruin her career, to her coming to ter

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Uncommon Heroes by Phillip Sherman

Phillip Sherman | Uncommon Heroes | Profiled are actors, athletes, writers, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, ex-priests, psychotherapists, corporate attorneys, activists, poets, p

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I Should Have Been A Hornby Train by Pat Arrowsmith

Pat Arrowsmith | I Should Have Been A Hornby Train | A memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of Britain’s best known lesbian figures. Cover art ‘The Carol Singers’ by Pat Arrowsmith [ watercolour

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated

Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton

Harold Acton | Nancy Mitford | The only biography in print of Nancy Mitford, written by her friend Harold Acton shortly after her death. Defining an exceptionally witty era whose va