A woman of many names

MariJane Meaker began her professional writing career by posing as a literary agent, whose “clients” consisted of her own pen names.

In the early 1950s, she and her lover, Patricia Highsmith (author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley), were writing lesbian pulp fiction novels before either lesbians or pulp fiction were cool.

Oh, in case you were wondering, the book was “I Stay Near You”, by M.E. Kerr, also known as MariJane Meaker.

Read an excerpt from Spring Fire, her groundbreaking lesbian romance novel.