Firebrand Books records, 1984-2001.
Collection Number: 7670

From 1984 to 2000, Firebrand Books published exceptional literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on lesbian and feminist themes. Publisher Nancy Bereano won the Publisher's Service Award at the "Lammy" or Lambda Literary Awards in 1996. She took the first risk on author Dorothy Allison, publishing the double-Lammy winning Trash in 1988. (It won awards in the categories of Lesbian Fiction and Small Press). Keeping more than 80 titles in print, including the entire "Dykes to Watch Out For" series, poetry by Audre Lorde, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Cheryl Clarke, and short stories, novels, and nonfiction from the likes of Ruthann Robson, Lesléa Newman, Mab Segrest, Leslie Feinberg and Judith Katz, (and more than a few Lammy winners and finalists), Bereano was at the forefront of lesbian and small press publishing for 16 years.

Firebrand Books records, #7670. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Files on each book published, including author and reviewer correspondence, files on rights and royalties, print history, reviews and promotional material. Also, rejection letters; invoices; distributors' reports; vendor files; files on conferences and events the publisher attended; file from publisher's service on the Advisory Committee to the Human Sexuality Collection, 1991; Firebrand's mailing list of organizations (ca. 1450); lists of Firebrand employees and interns and summary of financial donations to Firebrand; a zip disk containing Firebrand's web site; and posters that decorated the office.

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