Barbara Grier

Standard Name: Grier, Barbara

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Patricia Highsmith
PH was aware of her lesbianism, she said in her private papers, from the age of six. At twelve she felt she was a boy in a girl's body (though her appearance was pretty and...
Friends, Associates Maureen Duffy
At this time she was friendly with a group of writers connected with the Royal Court Theatre , and also with authors J. G. Farrell and Heathcote Williams , and with publisher Graham Nicol ...
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
When Barbara Grier found the book in a Kansas department store in 1952, she was thrilled: It was a very upbeat, pro-lesbian book, which in itself was a miracle.
qtd. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1973–2024, Numerous volumes.
102: 219
Michael Dirda said it...
Publishing Patricia Highsmith
Harper rejected this novel, and it came out pseudonymously from Coward-McCann as The Price of Salt. A paperback followed in 1953, in which the work sold more than a million.
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13

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