Caresse Crosby
From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda
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About the Book
Caresse Crosby is probably one of the least recognizable of all the names remembered from literary and artistic circles on 1920’s 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 endured—often spectacularly."
—William Clair, publisher of Voyages
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 women’s biographies.