Category: Autobiography/Biography

Posted in Autobiography/Biography History

Without Apology by Arden Eversmeyer; Margaret Purcell

Arden Eversmeyer; Margaret Purcell | Without Apology | Without Apology shares the stories of 24 ordinary, yet remarkable, women. Among them are: ? Saundra, who volunteered in rural Mississippi during the h

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Understanding Carson McCullers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) by Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr | Understanding Carson McCullers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) | Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, Understanding Carson McCullers provides a balanced introductory study of the Georgia-born novelist’s

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated

A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien | A Woman Appeared to Me | An autobiographical novel recounting the author’s love affair with Natalie Clifford Barney, originally published in Paris in 1904.

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Hollywood Lesbians by Boze Hadleigh

Boze Hadleigh | Hollywood Lesbians | Fans of Hollywood’s golden age will find this collection of interviews conducted over many years revealing…an enlightening picture emerges of Tinsel

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Literary Criticism Literary History

Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall by Terry Castle

Terry Castle | Noël Coward & Radclyffe Hall | At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward’s writing is play

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

k. d. lang by William Robertson

William Robertson | k. d. lang |

Since the release of her first album, a truly western experience in 1984, k.d. lang has galvanized listeners with her amazing voice, while

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest

Waiting In The Wings by Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga | Waiting In The Wings | Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is

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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