Tereska Torrès

Tereska Torres is the author of Women's Barracks (Feminist Press), which is widely considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel. It is based on her own experiences as a young woman in the Free French forces during WWII. Condemned in 1952 by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials, the novel became an underground phenomenon, selling over 4 million copies. Torres went on to write many more bestselling novels in France, which were often brought to an American audience by her husband, the author Meyer Levin. Torres lives in Paris, where she is completing her memoirs.