Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (March 26, 1928 – June 21, 2019) was an American writer and artist's model.[1]
Biography
She attended Black Mountain College and lived in Paris in the 1950s as part of the bohemian expatriate scene centered on James Baldwin, with whom she shared space in a literary magazine called New Story.
She translated a novel by the
bisexual and had a few love relationships with women, including María Irene Fornés from 1954 to 1957, and then Susan Sontag until 1958.[2]
In 1963, she married
merchant sailor and bohemian Louis Zwerling and had a son, the musician Milo Z. She taught at a school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for 28 years. In 2003, a collection of her writings, Notes of a Nude Model & Other Pieces, was published. She appears in the documentary Still Doing It about the sex lives of older women.[1]
In 2014, she published Abroad: An Expatriate's Diaries, 1950–1959, a book based on her diaries from that period when she lived in Paris. She also appeared in the documentary Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014.
Zwerling died on June 21, 2019, at the age of 91.[3]
References
- ^ a b Collins, Lauren (March 13, 2006). "Last Bohemians". The New Yorker.
- ^ Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers (November 2006). "Memories of Sontag: From an Ex-Pat's Diary". Retrieved December 30, 2012.
- ^ "Harriet Zwerling Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information".
Further reading
- Rollyson, Carl. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, W. W. Norton & Company (2000)
- Sontag, Susan. Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947–1963, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
- Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers. Notes of a Nude Model, Spuyten Duyvil (2003)
- Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers, Abroad: An Expatriate's Diaries, 1950–1959, Spuyten Duyvil (2014)
- Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers (2003). Notes of a nude model and other pieces. New York City: Spuyten Duyvil. ISBN 1-881471-85-3.
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