HELLMAN, LILLIAN. _The Children’s Hour._ Knopf, 1934. Also Random House 1942; also in Burns-Mantle, Best Plays of 1934-35. A rumor of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the women who own and manage it. HENRY, JOAN. _Women in Prison._ Doubleday 1952, pbr Permabooks 1953. This is non-fiction, autobiographical account of a woman’s experience in two English prisons. Very good. HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER. _The Blaze Of Noon._ Alliance 1940, pbr Berkley 1956, (m) minor, fco and BAYOR. HESSE, HERMAN. _Steppenwolf._ Henry Holt 1929. qpb Frederick Ungar, 1960. Symbolic (and classic) novel of man’s disintegration, caused by society’s ignorance. Contains highly sympathetic homosexual characters (male and female). HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. _The Talented Mr. Ripley._ Coward, 1955, pbr Dell 1959. (m, minor) _Strangers on a Train._ Harper & Bros. 1950. (m, minor) see also CLAIRE MORGAN HILL, PATI. _The Nine Mile Circle._ Houghton, Mifflin 1957 fco. Dreamy story of two teen-age girls and an idyllic summer during which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish, unerotic level. Very nice. HIMMEL, RICHARD. _Soul of Passion._ Star Pub, Co 1950. pbr tct. _Strange Desires_, Croydon Pub. 1952, pbr Avon, tct. _The Shame_, 1959, (m). No masterpiece but an interesting story about a man spending a week with his dead Army friend’s wife and recalling his long relationship with the dead man; over the week he slowly comes to acknowledge, and come to terms with the fact that their relationship had had overtones of homosexuality. HITT, ORRIE. _Girl’s Dormitory._ Beacon pbo 1958 scv. _Trapped._ Beacon pbo 1954. scv. _Wayward Girl._ Beacon pbo 1960 scv. HOLK, AGNETE. _The Straggler._ (Trans, from the Danish by Anthony Hinton). London, Arco Pub. 1954, pbr tct. _Strange Friends_, Pyramid Books 1955, very slightly abridged. Boyish Scandinavian Vita adopts a “little sister” but is quite unaware of the nature of her attraction to Hilda. In her late teens Hilda, stirred but unsatisfied by this attachment, makes an unwise marriage, and Vita undergoes a period of rootless drifting, a brief affair ending in separation, and finally makes a permanent arrangement with Hilda, whose unsuccessful marriage ended in divorce. Valuable for a portrait of European gay life, very unlike the American. HOLLIDAY, DON. _The Wild Night._ Nightstand Books 1960 (no publisher’s address listed). Composite novel of six lives which converge on New Year’s Eve in a cheap Greenwich Village strip joint. “One of those unexpectedly good stories one finds among the floods of paperback trash.” One of the six characters is a lesbian. HOLMES, (JOHN) CLELLON. _Go._ Scribner 1952, pbr Ace Books 1958, (m).