Maude Hutchins

Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins (1899-1991) was born in Long Island, New York. She received a B.F.A from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. In 1921 she married Robert Maynard Hutchins, the youngest president of the University of Chicago, and had three children. She was the author of several books, including Blood on the Dove, Love Is Pie, Honey on the Moon, and A Diary of Love, and co-wrote and illustrated Diagrammatics with Mortimer Adler. After she divorced in 1948, she moved to Southport, Connecticut. She died on March 28, 1991, in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Victorine
A sexual awakening novel like none other, mixing elements of Adleran psychology, surrealism, and the American pastoral. "Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious Ivy Compton-Burnett.... Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes."—Time