1. Theodora Keogh was a member of the Roosevelt family, born in New York City.
21 Facts About Theodora Keogh
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Theodora Keogh worked as a professional dancer in Canada and South America, but retired from this career in 1945.
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Theodora Keogh wrote nine novels, which were published between 1950 and 1962.
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Theodora Keogh explored gay and lesbian themes in her novels.
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Theodora Keogh is considered an early writer of lesbian pulp fiction.
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Theodora Keogh's works were largely forgotten between the 1960s and the early 2000s, when they were republished and "rediscovered".
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Theodora Keogh moved to Rome in the 1960s, and settled in North Carolina in the 1970s.
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Theodora Keogh spend the rest of her life as a resident of Caldwell County, North Carolina.
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Theodora Keogh was the eldest of three daughters born to Grace Lockwood and Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's third son.
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Theodora Keogh's mother was Grace Lockwood, daughter of Thomas Lockwood and Emmeline Stackpole of Boston.
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Theodora Keogh was brought up on the Upper East Side of New York, near the East River, and in the country at Cold Spring Harbor near Oyster Bay.
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Theodora Keogh attended Chapin School and Radcliffe College, finishing her education at Countess Montgelas' in Munich, Germany.
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Theodora Keogh then began her professional life as a dancer in South America and Canada.
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In France, Tom Theodora Keogh designed for the theater and the ballet and worked as an illustrator for Vogue magazine.
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Theodora Keogh designed costumes for such films as The Pirate with Judy Garland and Daddy Long Legs with Leslie Caron.
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Theodora Keogh wrote nine novels during the period of 1950 to 1962, after which time she gave up writing completely.
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Theodora Keogh's novels tend to focus on characters with psychological conflicts, and often with dark sides to their personalities.
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Also similar to Highsmith, Theodora Keogh's novels were noteworthy for exploring gay and lesbian themes, which were daring topics for the era in which she was writing.
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Theodora Keogh's handling of these themes in often lurid detail made her popular, as one of the early writers of lesbian pulp fiction.
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Theodora Keogh divorced Tom Theodora Keogh in the 1960s after his affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles.
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Theodora Keogh moved to Caldwell County, in the western mountains of North Carolina where she became friends with the wife of Arthur Alfred Rauchfuss, owner of a chemical plant.