WORLD-WIDE RELEASE FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Her Story. Finally Told.

Mary MacLane: Herself
A Biography by Michael R. Brown

America in 1902 stared, gasped, or cheered: Mary did it her way. She launched herself from obscurity in Butte, Montana at age 19 with an electrifying confessional memoir and began writing a life of thought and adventure we can read only now. Literary artist, charismatic media figure, proto-Surrealist, cool-headed businesswoman, introspective recluse, silent-movie vamp, first filmmaker in history to break the fourth wall, bisexual adventuress who wrote openly of it in the 1910s - this first-ever biography of Mary MacLane brings us her unique life from its beginning to its end.

Unfolding her artistic and spiritual evolution and still-compelling writing, the sensitive private person is heard at last in personal letters, freshly-uncovered works, family recollections, eyewitness accounts, and face-to-face interviews. Enriched with 140 rare photos and accounts of the fascinating people she met throughout her life, this deeply-researched, artfully-written biography lifts up a great writer's powerful voice to tell the story. Mary MacLane: Herself invites the reader to experience a life like no other.

Michael R. Brown is an American author/editor who published the first MacLane anthology, Tender Darkness. In 2009 he released the well-reviewed experimental memoir She and I: A Fugue and in 2014 edited the acclaimed Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader. He is now completing several projects including a multi-volume study of primary sources on MacLane through the years. He lives in Northern Italy.

RECENT PRAISE FOR MARY: "With aplomb, raw impetuosity, and astonishing frankness, Mary MacLane has what it takes to ignite the fiercest of today's feminists. Her first book is a train hurtling through the dust of a frozen world." - L'Express "One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century." - The Age "Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women's voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure had opened a door to what was possible for women." - The Atlantic "In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence, and the sun of the wide, bright world has come to shine on her again." - The Awl "Her hunger for life still jumps over to the reader today." - Der Spiegel "Her voice carries far. The author became her own work of art through writing." - Neue Zürcher Zeitung "Incandescent language ... her work is a visionary feminist manifesto of astonishing modernity."- Le Monde

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13:43 Verona time, 20 February 2025