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Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby and her whippet Narcisse
Born	Mary Phelps Jacob (1892-04-20)April 20, 1892 New York City, U.S.
Died	January 24, 1970(1970-01-24) (aged 77) Rome, Italy
Other names	Polly Jacob, Polly Peabody
Occupation(s)	Publisher, activist, writer
Known for	Inventor of the modern bra Co-founder, Black Sun Press
Notable work	Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly
Spouses	\n \n Richard R. Peabody \n (m. 1915; div. 1922) \n \n Harry Crosby \n (m. 1922; died 1929) \n \n Selbert Young \n (m. 1937; div. 1939) \n
Children	2

Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1892 \u2013 January 24, 1970)^[1] was the recipient of a patent for the first successful modern bra,^[2] an American patron of the arts, a publisher, and the woman Time called the \"literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris.\"^[3] She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press, which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many authors who would later become famous, among them Ana\u00efs Nin, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan.\n

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