New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The first serious full-scale biography to be written in English" of this French novelist, whose life was as extraordinary as her books. Based not only her published work, but also unpublished correspondence and previously unrecorded recollections of Colette by authors like Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maughan, and most significantly Colette's two Jouvenel stepsons. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xi, 276 pp. ISBN: 0-531098249.