MOORE, HAL. The Naked and the Fair. pbo, Beacon, 1958, scv.
MOORE, PAMELA. Chocolates for Breakfast. Rinehart 1956, pbr Bantam 1957. Candid, shocking story of a young girl’s disintegration; the opening episodes involve her rejection by a teacher on whom she has a crush, and there are variant overtones in her prolonged friendship with a school roommate, Janet’s suicide being the spur which makes Courtney resolve to pull herself together.
MORELL, LEE. Mimi. pbo Beacon Books 1959. Unusually good evening waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness almost unknown in this publisher’s paperbacks.
+ MORGAN, CLAIRE. (pseud of Patricia Highsmith) The Price of Salt. Coward-McCann, 1952, pbr Bantam 1953, 1959. Fine novel of an affair between two very nice, very courageous, very well-adjusted women whose initial attraction becomes the mainspring of both their lives. The author does not use one single stereotype or cliche; this is probably the American novel of the lesbian.
MORGAN, NANCY. City of Women, pbo Gold Medal 1952, 1959. Lesbian episodes In a novel of women living in barracks at Pearl Harbor.
MORLEY, IRIS. The Proud Paladin. N. Y. Morrow 1936. Lesbian content vague and doubtful, BAYOR and fco.
MORRO, DON. The Virgin. pbo Beacon 1955, released in 1959. scv.
MOSS, GEOFFREY. That Other Love. Doubleday, 1930. A long-continued affair between Phillida and an older friend breaks off because of the younger woman’s desire for children.
MOTLEY, WILLARD. Knock on Any Door. N. Y. Appleton-Century, 1947, pbr Signet 1953, (m).