Background
Arnold was born June Fairfax Davis on October 27, 1926, to Robert Cowan and Cad Wortham Davis in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Arnold"s own writing, such as Sister Gin, and the books she published through her press, Daughters, Incorporated, focused on telling the stories of lesbian lives and relationships. She went to Kincaid School in Houston, Texas, before going to Shipley in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Rice Institute (now Rice University) in Houston in 1948, and went on to earn her Master of Arts in literature from Rice in 1958.
The couple had four children before divorcing.
Arnold"s first novel, Applesauce, was published in 1966. lieutenant explored how people"s personalities change after marriage.
Daughters, Incorporated. published a number of books focusing on gender and lesbian experiences, including Lois Gould"s X: A Fabulous Child"s Story, Rita Mae Brown"s Rubyfruit Jungle, and Arnold"s own novels. Arnold"s second novel, The Cook and the Carpenter, was published in 1973.
lieutenant was followed by Sister Gin in 1975, a novel about Su, a 46-year-old woman whose carefully constructed life seemingly falls apart at the onset of menopause.
Su struggles to write a play, keep her life together, leave her partner of 20 years, Bettina, all while drinking copious amounts of "Sister Gin."
In addition to founding Daughters, Incorporated. and publishing three novels during her life, Arnold helped organize the first Women in Print Conference. Before her death, she was working on a novel based on the life of her mother. Arnold died of cancer on March 11, 1982, in Houston, before her book could be published.
lieutenant was released in 1987 as Baby Houston.
