Wild Heart, a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris | Suzanne Rodriguez | Charismatic, brilliant, and beautiful, the American writer Natalie Clifford Barney, who lived in Paris for most of her long life, is best known for th
Serving in Silence | Margarethe Cammermeyer | VIETNAM VETERAN. RECIPIENT OF THE BRONZE STAR. MOTHER OF FOUR. VA. NURSE OF THE YEAR DISCHARGED. In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret se
Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes | Phillip Herring | The first biography of its subject in more than a decade draws on interviews with Djuna Barnes’s brother and unpublished letters, tracing the life and
Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes | Phillip Herring | Recalls the early family life, affairs with both men and women, alcoholism, and creative rage of the author of the satirical novel ‘Nightwood’
Serving in Silence | Margarethe Cammermeyer | VIETNAM VETERAN. RECIPIENT OF THE BRONZE STAR. MOTHER OF FOUR. VA. NURSE OF THE YEAR DISCHARGED. In 1989, during a routine interview for top-secret se
Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa
Mary Renault | David Sweetman | A biography of the author of ‘The King must die’ discusses her harsh upbringing, her scholarship years at Oxford, her work as a nurse during World War
Mary Renault | David Sweetman | The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends: With a Selection of Her Poems (Radcliffe Biography Series) | Penelope Fitzgerald | Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury’s saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as V
Una Troubridge, the Friend of Radclyffe Hall | Richard Ormrod | When Una Troubridge died at the age of seventy-six, part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: ‘The Friend of