“A very engaging and thought-provoking portrayal of Grace Frick, who she was as a person and how she worked with and for Marguerite Yourcenar to construct their life together and create the environment that allowed works like Memoirs of Hadrian to come into being.”—Francesca Counihan, Maynooth University, author of L’Autorité dans l’œuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar

“We will henceforth be obliged to count this biography of Grace Frick in the forefront of biographies of Marguerite Yourcenar.”—Bérengère Deprez, Editor at Presses universitaires de Louvain, author of Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA: From Prophecy to Protest

"In this remarkable and essential first biography of Grace Frick, Joan E. Howard paints the figure of a twentieth century woman eager to promote women's education and to defend civil rights; a woman passionate about literature who became the indefatigable translator of the works of her lover, the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Against the clichés spread by many of Yourcenar's biographers, Howard does justice to the relationship between the two women, to the life they chose to build together, and gives us a deeper understanding of their entwined literary careers."—Béatrice Mousli, University of Southern California, author of Susan Sontag