Lesbian Lives: Biographies of Women from The Ladder

by Barbara Grier (Editor), Coletta Reid (Editor)

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Genres: Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

433 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Barbara Grier, born on November 4, 1933 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was an American writer and publisher most widely known for co-founding Naiad Press and writing and editing The Ladder under the pseudonym Gene Damon. As bibliographer, reviewer, collector, editor, and co-founder of Naiad Press, she was an important nurturer of lesbian literature. Grier and her partner Donna McBride, along with Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford, founded Naiad Press, which became America's foremost publisher of lesbian books. In 1985 Grier earned the President's Award for Lifetime Service from the Gay Academic Union. In 1991, Grier and McBride, representing Naiad Press, was given the Lambda Literary Award for Publisher's Service. Grier and McBride were given the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award in 2002. Grier and McBride retired and sold the Naiad backlist to Bella Books in 2003. Barbara Grier, publisher, activist, archivist and lesbian-feminist hellraiser, died November 10th, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida, where she had lived for years with her partner of four decades, Donna McBride.

Reviews

[Rosie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The writing of these articles was, generally speaking, not very high quality, but they were highly informative, and now I have a few more books on my to-read list than I did before. An easy book to get through, but not one very substantial.