Torrès, Tereska

LC control no.	n 50050084
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ2639.O82 French PS3570.O7 English
Personal name heading	Torrès, Tereska *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Levin, Tereska Torres, Terexa Achard, George Szwarc, Tereska
Birth date	1920-09-03
Death date	2012-09-20
Place of birth	Paris (France)
Place of death	Paris (France)
Field of activity	Authorship
Found in	Her Le sable et l'écume, 1946. The dangerous games, 1957: t.p. (Tereska Torrès) New York times WWW site, Sept. 25, 2012 (in obituary published Sept. 24: Tereska Torrès; b. Tereska Szwarc, Sept. 3, 1920, Paris; m. Georges Torrès, 1944 (killed in action several months later); m. Meyer Levin, 1948 (d. 1981); d. Thursday [Sept. 20, 2012], Paris, aged 92; convent-educated French writer who quite by accident wrote America's first lesbian pulp novel) New York Times, viewed May 17, 2020 (Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian fiction, dies ; convent-educated French writer who quite by accident wrote America's first lesbian pulp novel, died on Thursday at her home in Paris. She was 92 ; best known for “Women's Barracks," published in the United States in 1950 as a paperback original ; was born Tereska Szwarc in Paris on Sept. 3, 1920 ; were Jews from Poland. Before her birth, they had settled in France) <https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/books/tereska-torres-writer-of-lesbian-fiction-dies-at-92.html> Lambda Literary, viewed May 17, 2020 (Novelist Tereska Torres, 92, has Died ; best known for her controversial pulp novel Women's Barracks, died on Thursday in her home in Paris ; Torrès wrote 16 books in all, both novels and memoirs. Her last book, published earlier this year, was Mission Secrète (Tallandier), a memoir of detailing her campaign to “help the "black Jews" of Ethiopia to emigrate to Israel." ; was married for many years to the American journalist and writer Meyer Levin) <https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2012/09/novelist-tereska-torres-92-has-died/>
Associated language	fre