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21 LGBT Biographies or Memoirs You Should Read Now
Into the Garden With Charles by Clyde Phillip Wachsberger (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28)
A sweet and inspiring story about art, love, and gardening, Into the Garden With Charles is set against around the author's noteworthy garden outside his year-old house in the hamlet of Orient on Long Island. In the memoir we meet Wachsberger, a boy in New York City who dreams of storybook gardens and grows into a a middle-aged gay man who has given up on finding the one. Then he meets Charles, an avid gardener, and the two will become life partners and create the wildly gorgeous garden of their dreams. Wachsberger's published books include Daffodil, Rose, Of Leaf and Flower, and Stories and Poems for Gardeners, which he edited with his partner, Charles Dean, and for which his illustrations won the Garden Writers Association award for best book illustration. Into the Garden With Charles, in fact,includes 14 full-color illustrations of the author's paintings, which give this sweet little story the feel of an antique children's book, fitting for a memoir about growing up and falling in love in a storybook setting. ()
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, by Harry Kessler, edited b • Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. More books than SparkNotes. Dramatist and poet John Gay had a prolific and successful writing career in 18th century London, but is best known for his tour-de-force satirical play, The Beggar's Opera. Gay was born to a prominent Devonshire family in In , he moved to London to work as secretary to the dramatist Aaron Hill. Through Hill, Gay was exposed to London’s literary circles, where he made the acquaintance of such celebrated writers as Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and Dr. Arbuthnot. Gay began his writing career as a poet and ballad-lyric writer. His first published work was the burlesque poem Wine. Though his first play, The Mohawks, was never produced, his second play, The Wife of Bath, was produced at Drury Lane, London's most important theatre at the time, in However, Gay's first real success came with the play, The Shepherd’s Week. His relationship with Drury Lane continued with the run of The What D’ye Call It, a “Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce.” In , Gay collaborated with Pope and Arbuthnot on an unsuccessful farce, Three Hours After Marriage. In , he published a collection of miscellaneous works, Poems on Several Occasions, and his first tragedy, The Captives, ran at Drury •Lambda Literary Confer for Jocund Memoir stretch Biography
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