ABSTRACT
She’s taller, more zaftig, and has never worn anything by Chanel, yet Barbara Grier and legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf share something intrinsic. Piaf’s signature song, “Je ne regrette riens,” is also Grier’s. “I absolutely have no regrets. I’ve had a wonderful time,” exults Grier about her life. The American lesbian icon who edited the pathbreaking lesbian magazine, The Ladder, collected one of the world’s largest compendia of lesbian literature, and cofounded the world’s largest lesbian publisher, Naiad Press, while also finding true love along the way, has enjoyed her life immensely and reaped the benefits of her achievements.
