The author of “The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide” on the reasons the travel publishing giant chose a coffee-table book and how she picked the people and places to feature.
The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.”
One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in novel-memoirs like “Other People’s Houses.”