Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda - Softcover

Conover, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595159281 ISBN 13: 9780595159284

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Caresse Crosby is probably one of the least recognizable of all the names remembered from literary and artistic circles on 1920s Paris, yet her life touched the most promising and gifted artists of a generation. Idealist, poet, friend, love, and muse to figures such as Hemingway, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Dali - Caresse Crosby deserves to be remembered. Anne Conover has unearthed a gem with her account of this free-spirited and flamboyant woman."Conover has rediscovered a woman ahead of her time, influential to writers and artists...She was a woman who enduredoften spectacularly." William Clair, publisher of Voyages

About this title

About the Author

Anne Conover, a Stanford University graduate, now lives in Washington, D.C., where she has held editor/writer positions with the U.S. Information Agency, Johns Hopkins University Press and The Library of Congress. As a freelancer, she contributes frequently to major U.S. newspapers and magazines; is the author of several womens biographies.

From Publishers Weekly

This admiring, undiscriminating biography by a freelance writer breathlessly follows the career of the American beauty who invented the brassiere to wear at her New York society debut in 1910. Divorced from an alcohol-prone husband by whom she had two children, Mary Phelps Jacob (1892-1970) married Harry Crosby, who gave her the name Caresse and with whom she lived profligately in Paris, wrote poetry and published Joyce, Eliot and Pound in her Black Sun Press. After Harry killed himself and his girlfriend in 1929, Caresse, "always partial to titles," never ceased her quest for adventure and numerous lovers. She ran a gallery of modern art in wartime Washington, published a cultural magazine, espoused the cause of world citizenship, and later, as "principessa" of Roccasinibalda, a 72-room ruined castle outside Rome, entertained young literati for whom, with limited funds, she "could make a Renaissance meal out of a package of soup and a poetry reading." Photos not seen by PW.
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Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595159281
• ISBN 13: 9780595159284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256