A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney -- Scott Bane, Paperback Alison Davies Phoebe Bridgers

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who worked with American journalist Varian Fry to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of France

A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney -- Scott Bane, Paperback Alison Davies Phoebe BridgersAfter a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression.