The First Time Ever: Love Stories by Naiad Press Authors

by Barbara Grier (Editor)

Book by Cassidy, Christine

Genres: Erotica, Romance

255 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Barbara Grier, born on November 4, 1933 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was an American writer and publisher most widely known for co-founding Naiad Press and writing and editing The Ladder under the pseudonym Gene Damon. As bibliographer, reviewer, collector, editor, and co-founder of Naiad Press, she was an important nurturer of lesbian literature. Grier and her partner Donna McBride, along with Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford, founded Naiad Press, which became America's foremost publisher of lesbian books. In 1985 Grier earned the President's Award for Lifetime Service from the Gay Academic Union. In 1991, Grier and McBride, representing Naiad Press, was given the Lambda Literary Award for Publisher's Service. Grier and McBride were given the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award in 2002. Grier and McBride retired and sold the Naiad backlist to Bella Books in 2003. Barbara Grier, publisher, activist, archivist and lesbian-feminist hellraiser, died November 10th, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida, where she had lived for years with her partner of four decades, Donna McBride.