Theodora Keogh
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Theodora Roosevelt Keogh O'Toole Rauchfuss (June 30, 1919 – January 5, 2008) was an American novelist writing under her first married name, Theodora Keogh, in the 1950s and 1960s.[1]
Theodora Keogh | |
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Born | Theodora Roosevelt (1919-06-30)June 30, 1919 New York City, U.S. |
Died | January 5, 2008(2008-01-05) (aged 88) |
Education | Chapin School |
Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
Occupation | Novelist |
Spouse(s) | Tom Keogh Thomas O'Toole Arthur Alfred Rauchfuss |
Parent(s) | Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Grace Lockwood |
Relatives | Roosevelt family |
She was a member of the Roosevelt family, born in New York City. She worked as a professional dancer in Canada and South America, but retired from this career in 1945. She wrote nine novels, which were published between 1950 and 1962. Her characters' personalities tended to have hidden dark sides. She explored gay and lesbian themes in her novels. She is considered an early writer of lesbian pulp fiction. Her works were largely forgotten between the 1960s and the early 2000s, when they were republished and "rediscovered".
During her writing career, Keogh lived in Paris. She moved to Rome in the 1960s, and settled in North Carolina in the 1970s. She spend the rest of her life as a resident of Caldwell County, North Carolina. Following the death of her third and last husband in 1989, she lived alone in a house in the woods.