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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

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Parenting & Families

Family Values by Phyllis Burke

Phyllis Burke | Family Values | A lesbian recounts her fight to legally adopt and co-parent her lover’s child, describing her journey into the worlds of adoption courts and the milit

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Autobiography/Biography

Mom by Nisa Donnelly

Nisa Donnelly | Mom | In her introduction to this anthology, Nisa Donnelly describes the particular bond between mothers and their lesbian daughters: ‘We are the women our

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Gertrude Stein by Frederick J. Hoffman

Frederick J. Hoffman | Gertrude Stein | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerptt:

AT LEAST three Gertrude Steins have been accounted for in modern criticism, biography, and

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Gertrude and Alice by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | Gertrude and Alice | They were the talk of Paris, photographed by Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway. ‘Perfect… and witty… Souhani b

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Non-Fiction

Gertrude Stein (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom | Gertrude Stein (Modern Critical Views) | Scholarly biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Memoirs Of Moving On by McRae-McMahon Dorothy

McRae-McMahon Dorothy | Memoirs Of Moving On | Faith, passion and resilience have been the hallmarks of Dorothy McRae-McMahon’s extraordinary life. Now 70, her memoirs begin with growing up in drou

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

Truly Wilde by Joan Schenkar

Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | She was lovely, sophisticated, and famous for her witty conversation, even in a social circle that was known for its fabulous talkers. The only child

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Picasso by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Picasso | For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein’s Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of who

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp

Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp | Going Down With Janis | This is the raw and scathing portrait of Janis Joplin by her female lover. This book recounts those harrowing days when these two women were just hipp