Wilhelm, Gale
Title
Wilhelm, Gale
Birth Date
26 April, 1908
Birthplace
Eugene, Oregon
Death Date
11 July, 1991
Occupation
Writer
Biographical Text
Gale Wilhelm confined her literary output to the years between 1935 and 1945 when she published poems, short stories, and six novels, of which three were on lesbian themes. We Too are Drifting (1935) was reprinted as a paperback by Berkley in 1955, and recounts a doomed lesbian relationship in the tradition of Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness (1928). Wilhelm's Torchlight to Valhalla (1938) was reprinted in paperback by Berkley in the 1950s under the title The Strange Path, and is a rare example of a lesbian novel from this early period which offers the possibility of happiness to the protagonists. As such it can be compared with Better Angel ( call no. PS 3503 R812 B48 2000), a similarly optimistic novel of love between two young men published in 1933 under the name Richard Meeker, the pseudonym of famed puppeteer Forman Brown (1901-1996).
Sources
Online Archive of Califonia, Finding Aid to the Gale Wilhelm Papers, 1926-1994, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3h4nd3bv/
Wikipedia Entry
Goodreads Entry
Profile Contributor
Terrence Paris
Item Relations
This Item | Creator | Item: We too are drifting |
This Item | Creator | Item: Strange path (The) |
Collection
Citation
“Wilhelm, Gale,” The Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection @ Mount Saint Vincent University, accessed December 5, 2023, https://msvulpf.omeka.net/items/show/834.
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