Libby Brown Collection on Dorothy Dean

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Libby Brown Collection on Dorothy Dean

1980-1987

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/mss_452/

Dorothy Dean (December 22, 1932–February 13, 1987) was a social figure, member of Andy Warhol’s Factory, writer and editor in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. This collection consists of materials collected by Libby Brown created by Dorothy Dean that were accumulated during their friendship. Materials include calendars, notebooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a roladex primarily from the period of Dean's life after she left New York in 1980 until her death in 1987.

1.25 linear feet

eng, Latn

Fales Library & Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 11627117

Fales Library & Special Collections

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Dean, Dorothy, 1932-1987

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Dorothy Dean was a downtown social figure. Born into a bourgeois black family in 1932 in White Plains, New York, she attended Radcliffe College and in 1958 earned a masters degree in Fine Arts from Harvard College. While at Cambridge, she began associating almost entirely with gay white men, presumably in an effort to distance herself from the politics surrounding being both black and female in the fifties and sixties, politics with which she did not identify. Moving to Ne...