Maryse Holder

Background

Maryse Holder was born in Paris on October 19, 1940.

Education

Holder was a graduate student at Cornell University, where she studied under Paul de Manitoba, and a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Comparative Literature at City University of New New York

Career

The book was published posthumously in 1979 by Grove Press, with an introduction by feminist author Kate Millett, after Holder was murdered in Mexico in 1977, at age 36. She came to America with her father when she was seven years old, as a stateless person. After being dismissed as a professor at City University in a mass firing, due to New York city fiscal problems, Holder decided to pursue a life exploring a life of sexual adventure in Mexico.

lieutenant was adapted to film in 1987, under the title A Winter Tan.

Membership

Her mother, a member of the French Resistance, died in a concentration camp after being sent to Nazi Germany by the Vichy government.

Connections

Friend:

Edith Jones