June Arnold
(1926 - 1982) U.S.A.
Writer
June Arnold, author and publisher, was born on October 27, 1926, in Greenville, South Carolina, the daughter of Robert Cowan and Cad (Wortham) Davis. She attended Kinkaid Schoolqv in Houston and Shipley in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and made her debut at the Allegro Club ball in 1947. She attended Vassar College in 1943-44 but returned to Houston and completed her B.A. at Rice Institute (now Rice University) in 1948. She earned a master's degree in literature at Rice in 1958.
Together with her partner Parke Bowman, co-founded Daughters Inc., in Vermont. This was the first press specializing in (lesbian) women's writing, and in particular in novels. It ceased to exist in 1978. Arnold died from brain cancer.
Books:
- Applesauce (1967)
- The Cook and the Carpenter (1973)
- Lover (1976)
- Sister Gin (1977)
- Baby Houston (1987)
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