Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art and literature, and at its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion, and here the author of Chanel's Riviera hones in on Cunard's turbulent affairs with writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen, and Louis Aragon, as well as black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Anne de Courcy also portrays Cunard as a gifted poet, a bold publisher, and a crusader against racism and fascism.