Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repe
Susan Quinn | Eleanor And Hick | A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok–a relationship that, over more than three decades, transfor
Simon Goldhill | A Very Queer Family Indeed | “We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.” So begins A
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | ‘ Solitude… je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n’aime pas comme ils aiment… Je mourrai comme ils meurent ‘, écr
Leslie Brody | Sometimes You Have To Lie | ‘The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh’s masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation a
Hilary Holladay | The Power of Adrienne Rich | The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet. Adrienne Ri
Sarah Liss | Army of Lovers | Will was pretty much the perfect role model.’ – Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroe
Jane Gilmour | Colette’s France | French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the ren
Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century’s first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake an