The Summer Wives: A Novel

Djuna Barnes (/ˈdʒuːnɑː/, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.[2] In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.[3] […]

Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de […]

Jan Cremer (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑn ˈkreːmər]; born 20 April 1940, Enschede, Netherlands) is a Dutch author, photographer and painter. His best known work is the novel Ik, Jan Cremer [nl] (“I, Jan Cremer”; 1964) and the sequel Ik, Jan Cremer, tweede boek (“I, Jan Cremer, second book”; 1966). The publication of this book created scandal in […]

François Augiéras (1925–1971) was an American-born French painter and writer.[1][2][3] François Augiéras was born in Rochester, New York, two months after his father’s death. His father taught the piano at the Eastman School of Music.[1]. He moved to France (Paris and later Dordogne) with his mother. At the age of fourteen, he left home and […]

John Cleland (/ˈkliːlənd/; baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. James Boswell called him “a sly, old malcontent”.[1] John Cleland was the eldest son of the Scot William Cleland (1673/4 – 1741) and Lucy […]