Jerri Dell

Meet Jerri Dell, author of BLOOD TOO BRIGHT:
Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay

Jerri Dell

Jerri Dell, Author. Photo: Dave Romero/Vibrantimage.com

“Floyd Dell’s granddaughter has unearthed a trove of his private letters. This collection is the first in-depth entrée into Floyd Dell’s brilliant mind as it tries to grasp that of his still-elusive and enigmatic lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay.”—Barbara Hurd Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

Following a thirty-year career working with illiterate women in poor countries for the World Bank, Jerri Dell moved to rural Pennsylvania, where she writes creative non-fiction and memoir. Blood Too Bright: Remembering Edna St. Vincent Millay, is her vision of the book on which her grandfather, early 20th-century author Floyd Dell, was working at the time of his death in 1969. She is currently writing a memoir of her travels for the World Bank, and another of growing up with the ghosts of Bohemian Greenwich Village.

Find Jerri at her website and at her author page at Amazon.

 

About Jerri’s grandfather, the voice behind Blood Too Bright, friend and lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell, the author’s grandfather.

Floyd Dell (1887 – 1969), a central figure of the Chicago Literary Renaissance and Greenwich Village bohemianism of the early 20th century, was a pivotal writer whose advocacy of feminism, socialism, psycho-analysis and progressive education shocked the American bourgeoisie. Managing editor of the radical magazine The Masses, Dell was twice put on trial for publishing subversive literature. He has been called one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of his time.

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