JAMES, HENRY. Turn of the Screw. Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a governess for the souls of two young children.
The Bostonians. Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.
JOHNSON, KAY. My Name is Rusty. Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a novel of a woman’s prison, complete with glossary of “prison slang”—but if the author has ever been inside a woman’s prison, or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.
JONES, JAMES. From Here to Eternity. Scribners 1951, pbr Signet ca. 1952, (m).
KASTLE, HERBERT D. Koptic Court. Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct Seven Keys to Koptic Court, Crest 1959, (m).
KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. World Without Women. pbo Gold Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good of type.
KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. Short Term. World, 1959. This one is just out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.
KENT, JUSTIN. Mavis. Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv. “Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and they are really a pair of dillies dallying....”
+ KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) The Divided Path. (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer finds herself in tears, she’s apt to think there must be something to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young homosexual, and his long-continued,[32] scrupulously self-denying relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his friend’s “difference”.
KENYON, THEDA. That Skipper from Stonington. Messner, 1946. A juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library. The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is unhealthy (it isn’t) hound the boy’s protector to suicide.