Well now here's someone
Ok so I was reading about playwright Hart Crane because I was reading up on whether Tennessee Williams did, indeed, die choking on a bottle cap (he did), and Williams's will stated that he wanted to dropped into the sea as near as possible to where Crane died. Side note: Williams's brother ignored this and buried him in St Louis. People never listen to one's WISHES, especially when they involve being posthumously flung into the sea.
So I decided to look up Hart Crane, and I came across PEGGY COWLEY, who had a colorful life, to say the least, and someone should write a book about her. Cowley seems mostly known as being the one woman Hart Crane is known to have slept with:
This affair has since become a major point of interest for Crane scholars—particularly for those reading him with an eye toward his sexuality—as his engagement with heterosexual life is a determining theme in his last major poem, "The Broken Tower" (x)
She was also on the boat with Crane when he jumped overboard. But even BEFORE that, she was a suffragist in the American women's rights movement of the 1910s. She invited famed Catholic activist Dorothy Day to join the more radical National Woman's Party (Day became one of the "Silent Sentinels" who stood in front of the White House). She had a relationship with Eugene O'Neill, was married twice, and was generally just involved in the arts scene of the New York arts scene of the '20s and '30s.
If you'd like to read The Broken Tower, which I'm only reading people interpret as a phallus, check it out here: The Broken Tower.