# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caresse-crosby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:37:09.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caresse-crosby"
name: "Caresse Crosby"
slug: "caresse-crosby"
description: "Caresse Crosby was an American publisher and writer. Time called her the \"literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris.\" As an American patron of the arts, she and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press, which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many authors who would later become famous, among them Anaïs Nin, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan. She was also the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra."
tagline: "American publisher, activist, and inventor of the bra (1892–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caresse_Crosby_and_her_whippet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-04-20"
deathDate: "1970-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.78
  momentum:             2.310654685494224
  historical:           12.58881466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2055387/"
    handle:    "nm2055387"
sources:
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    title: "کیریس کراسبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاريس كروسبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "كاريس كروسبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کاریس کرازبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosbyov%C3%A1"
    title: "Caresse Crosbyová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Phelps_Jacob"
    title: "Mary Phelps Jacob"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "کاریس کرازبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%99"
    title: "קארס קרוסבי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby"
    title: "Caresse Crosby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464037"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump