¿Are Women Writers best? Or Bisexual Men?

 Maybe. Burning Sappho, of course, heads the list. Then you go on counting, fewer--way fewer--but wonderfully alive and authentic lady-persons: Christine de Pisane, Mme. de Sévigné, Sei Shonagon, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Colette. I confess that I have, personally, a special penchant for the prose of Françoise Sagan, which, even when I don't like or agree with what she is saying, has the effect on me of sweet music. As does, of course also the prose of Helen Waddell. But I beg not to have to consider the thundering classicism of Marguerite Yourcénar, for, if you please, she has transgressed: Her morbid, Lesbian interest in the affective nature of exclusively male (pederastic) relationships is an Abomination. As is that also, of course, of Mary Renault.