Caresse Crosby
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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...
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Jacob's brassiere, from the original patent application.
Jacob's brassiere, from the original patent application.
Nantasket Beach and the Nantasket Hotel, State Bath House and Paragon Park in the background, circa 1910.
Harry and Polly Crosby on the day of their marriage on September 9, 1922.
Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and the Black Sun Press
Illustration by Alastair from Harry Crosby's book Red Skeletons, published in 1927.
View of the Rocca Sinibalda castle's maschio (tall tower) fronting the residential palace.Writers from United States 6
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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.
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