Secret Agent
In researching the fascinating life of Jazz Age author Elizabeth Dejeans, I recently traveled to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University, where I discovered a trove of material in the papers of her agent, Paul R. Reynolds. The library’s helpful curators asked me to write about my treasure-hunting for their blog, which you can read here, or below. To the right is one of the amazing letters I found, in which Elizabeth does a gender reveal. Afraid that as a woman nobody would take her seriously, she had been writing to Reynolds under the guise of “E….