Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Name: Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
ISBN: 9781324105381

by Jane Kamensky

National Book · 2024 · Shortlist

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W. W. NortonMarch 19, 2024Biography & Memoir History NonfictionISBN 9781324105381

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2024	Shortlist

About This Book

Jane Kamensky's biography of Candida Royalle, the feminist pornographer who sought to reorient the adult film industry toward female pleasure, uses her life to tell the story of the sexual revolution from the perspective of those who lived it. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Jane KamenskyAmerican

Jane Kamensky (born c. 1963) is an American historian, professor emerita of history at Harvard University, and since 2024 President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. Her most notable works include the award-winning biography A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016), which received the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as The Exchange Artist (2008, George Washington Book Prize finalist) and the novel Blindspot (2008, co-authored with Jill Lepore). Read more →