A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls

“A lively history.”
—The New Yorker

“Riveting and indispensible”
—The Boston Globe

“Wonderfully researched and consistently entertaining.”
—Chicago Review of Books
“A fascinating account of a remarkable woman dangerously ahead of her time. Margaret C. Anderson championed the most scandalous writers and thinkers whom we hold dear as literary geniuses today, and her story is more important now than ever before.”
—Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians
“Adam Morgan’s wise and generous biography is wholly transportive and spellbinding. I was beguiled.”
—Ling Ma, bestselling author of Severance and Bliss Montage
“An exhilarating portrait of a woman whose battle matters now just as much as it did in 1921. Exquisitely researched, deeply felt, and poignant. This one belongs on your shelf.”
—Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe and The Book of X
“A fresh and much-needed account of the modernist visionary who gambled everything on beauty—and lost. Morgan captures the hopes, ambitions, feuds, and foibles of the American avant-garde with exceptional care and clarity on matters that still hold great relevance, such as the nature of censorship, community building, and artistic innovation.”
—Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf
“A fast-paced, gripping story that captures the tensions between the fiercely independent, strong-willed Margaret Anderson and the limited societal roles to which women were expected to adhere. An exhilarating homage to all who have lived life by their own terms.”
—Michelle Duster, author of Ida B. the Queen
“Adam Morgan is a stylish storyteller, bringing to glorious life the woman who fought censorship to modernize American literature. A riveting tale of both a person and a movement.”
—Audrey Clare Farley, author of The Unfit Heiress
“Readers will savor this enlightening depiction of a little-discussed but influential figure of both modernism and queer history.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
”[Anderson’s] reputation endures as ‘a politically radical lesbian’ and champion of modernism. A lively biography of a bold woman.”
—Kirkus

Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His writing regularly appears in Esquire, and has also been published in The Paris Review, Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and more. He spent a decade in Chicago, during which time he founded the Chicago Review of Books and covered the city’s arts and culture for Chicago magazine and the Chicago Reader.

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