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Summer 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 3 Nonfiction |

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American literary scholar, Terry Castle has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall, which won the Lambda Literary Editor’s Choice award and was named one of the Year’s Ten Best Books of 2003 by The Advocate. She is a well-known essayist and teaches English as the Walter A. Hass Professor in the Humanities at Stanford.

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