Betsy Prioleau is the author of Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age (Abrams Press, 2022), Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them (W. W. Norton, 2013), Circle of Eros (Duke University Press), and Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love (Penguin/Viking).
She has a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University, was an associate professor at Manhattan College, and taught cultural history at New York University. She lives in New York City.
Author website: http://www.betsyprioleau.com
Books in order of publication:
The Circle of Eros: Sexuality in the Work of William Dean Howells – 1983
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love – 2003
Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them – 2013
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age – 2022
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