Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (born 1891)

Caresse Crosby

Socialite and inventor (1892–1970)

Caresse Crosby was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra, an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." She and her second husband, Harry Crosby,…

Black Sun Press

The Black Sun Press was an English-language press noted for publishing the early works of many modernist writers including Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, and Eugene Jolas. It enjoyed the greatest longevity among the several expatriate presses…