KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.
KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to save him is a lesbian.
+ KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the development of homosexuality from childhood.
_Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m).
LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. Classic novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the heroine from childhood to old age.
LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.
+ LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the field and place it high on the list.
LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946. The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel’s heroine—an embittered, abandoned spinster.
+ LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931. High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual, in a woman’s college.