DE MEJO, OSCAR. _Diary of a Nun._ pbo Pyramid 1955. Just what it sounds like—fictional diary of a young girl in a convent warding off scandalous advances. Mediocre.
+ DENNIS, NIGEL FORBES. _Cards of Identity._ Vanguard, 1955. Hilarious novel of confused identity, dealing with both male and female homosexuality.
DES CARS, GUY. _The Damned One._ pbo Pyramid, 1956. A member of French aristocracy, ambiguously sexed enough to be classified as female at birth, grows up unequivocally male but retains the name, dress and character of a female to avoid scandal—which comes anyhow when _she_ carries on with an eccentric Englishwoman.
DEUTSCH, DEBORAH. _The Flaming Heart._ Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1959, (m).
DEVLIN, BARRY. Acapulco Nocturne. Vixen Press, 1952.
Cheating Wives. Beacon pbo 1959 (copyright 1955).
Moon Kissed. Green Farms, Conn. Modern Pubs 1957, Vixen Press 1953, pbr tct _Forbidden Pleasures_ Beacon Books 1959.
Too Many Women. Vixen(?) 1953, Beacon pbr 1959.
These are all the same sort of thing, evening wasters or scv, depending on taste. Big handsome men of incredible stamina, engaging incessantly in that one activity besides which all else is as naught, with a succession of beautiful women, blonde, brunette and redhead. Now and then this procession of affairs is varied a little by letting the girls sport with one another to give the heroes a breathing spell. In short, sexy books for people who like reading sexy books. Adults only, please.
DE VOTO, BERNARD. _Mountain Time._ Little, Brown & Co 1946—47, fco. One very brief overt lesbian episode.
DE VRIES, PETER. _The Tents of Wickedness._ Little, Brown & Co, 1959, Minor episode in a very funny literary satire—Army colonel who talks pure Hemingway turns out to be a WAC in disguise.
DIBNER, MARTIN. _The Deep Six._ Doubleday 1953, pbr Permabooks 1957, (m).
DIDEROT, DENIS. _Memoirs of a Nun._ (trans from French by Frances Birrell). London, Rutledge & Sons 1928, hcr London, Elek Books, Book Centre Ltd, N. Circular Road, Neasden, London, N. W. 10, England. Classic French novel _La Religieuse_, written in 1760, published in 1796. Reflects the very bitter anti-clerical sentiment of the times just before the Revolution. A “cornerstone” title.