New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (18cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 103pp. Light wear and dust-soil to margins, rear cover lightly damp spotted, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page together with her 212 phone number. Memoirs of the "grande horizontale" nude model and Greenwich Village "den mother" Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (1928-2019), a member of James Baldwin's Parisian expat community and (arguably) the original dud avocado. Reference: Lauren Collins, "Last Bohemians," The New Yorker, March 5, 2006.

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Title

Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]

Publisher

Spuyten Duyvil, New York

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

1881471853

ISBN 13

9781881471851

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Part beat memoir, part third person story, Harriet Sohmers Zwerling recalls her life on the edge surrounded by writers and artists of the 50's & 60's. Introduction by Edward Field

About the Author

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling is a Manhattanite, born and raised. Attended NYU for her first two years of college, then Black Mountain , then Berkeley. Dropped out and in 1950 arrived in Paris with $200, hoping to stay for a couple of months. Instead, she remained in Europe for nine years, involved in liaisons with both men and women, working at the International Herald Tribune and doing freelance translating for a living. New Story magazine published three of her pieces, next to work by James Baldwin, Alison Lurie and other established writers. Returned to the States in 1959, and got involved with the Beat scene in New York and Provincetown. Her work was published in Swank magazine, and the anthology. The Bold New Women issued by Fawcett. She also edited, with Bill Ward, the important literary mag, Provincetown Review.

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