Colette Author:Joanna Richardson For France's most famous female writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, life was luxuriously immoral and living was ecstasy. The first serious full-scale biography of Colette in English, this portrait reveals the quintessential Collette: her flamboyant career, her dreams and desires, her energetic and unconventional love affairs -- and her wonderful ... more »writing from the first naughty Claudine novels and the scandalous Cherie to the incomparable Gigi, written when Colette was already seventy years old. Based on previously unpublished correspondence, memoirs, and recollections, this biography is given a unique authority by the contributions of Colette's two stepsons. An authentic Colette emerges: outrageous, born to be earthy and unconventional, but possessed of a singular sensibility and a talent that made her one of France's literary treasures.« less