About the Author

Nancy Cunard (1896- 1965) was a remarkable woman, most famous now perhaps for the vast anthology Negro (1934), which she put together with her sometime lover, the jazz pianist, Henry Crowder, and the for the pamphlet she edited in 1937, AuthorsTake sides on the Spanish War. A renowned beauty, she used her inherited wealth to aid various radical causes and, in 1928, to set up the Hours Press in France. Among its ealiest publications was a small collection of poems, Whorescope, by the then unknown Samuel Beckett.