ABSTRACT
New York during the 1940s led her to set up her own press in Greenwich Village where she published the books she had written in Paris and a collection of short fiction, Under a Glass Bell (1944). She also wrote erotica to make ends meet. She produced six novels based on her diaries, Ladders to Fire (1946), Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four Chambered Heart (1950), A Spy in the House of Love (1954), Seduction of the Minotaur (1961), and Collages (1964), before finally beginning to publish the diaries themselves. She divided the last thirty years of her life between New York and Hugh Guiler and Los Angeles and Rupert Pole. Her intermittent relationships with women, and her openness towards sexual self-determination, make her interesting for a lesbian readership. Some of her works have been considered feminist in content.
