The Crowded Shroud

About the Book

About the Author

Ms. Baron was born in Yonkers, NY in the year 1919. She married Oscar Baron, owner of the Yonkers based Alicat Bookshop in 1940. Through the Alicat Bookshop she published "Outcast" chapbooks with contributions from such friends and writing contemporaries as Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer), Charles Willeford (Miami Blues) and William Carlos Williams (Paterson).  She frequented Beauford Delaney's studio in Soho while he painted two portraits of her. There she met and published Anais Nin and Maya Deren and be-friended James Baldwin.   Ms. Baron was a resident of paris in 1947-1948 where she met Wallace Fowlie who agreed to do a chapbook for her. She spent many years writing book reviews for a local newspaper in New York and began working on here memoirs in 1946 which continues to this day.  Ms. Baron at the age of 80 has become a first time author and feels that the advent of the internet allows opportunities and efficiencies for authors not previously available. She hopes to have her autobiography published at some time in the near future.