The Grapevine: The Secret World of the Lesbian

by Jess Stearn

Hardcover - first printing - in unclipped, plastic-protected jacket, the latter a little tanned and worn, with scuffed spine. Page block and page edges are tanned; interior otherwise clean and sound, and very good for age. TS

372 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Stearn was a Jewish-American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. As an author, Stearn specialized in sensationalist speculative non-fiction. His early work focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals such as prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. His later work focused on spirituality, the occult, and psychic phenomena. His most popular works were two biographies on the American psychic Edgar Cayce; Stearn was a conference speaker for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and a proponent of Cayce's theories.

Reviews

[Cameron · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is like 80% interviews with lesbians or with "experts" about lesbians. Sometimes those experts are also lesbians. There are a lot of frustrating things with this book since it was published in 1964 and written by a then middle-aged straight man, but if you want to learn about lesbian life in the early 1960s this is a valuable resource because so much of it is in the words of actual lesbians.