Dorothy Dean (1932-1987) was an African American writer and actress. She entered the 1960s New York underground scene and quickly became one of its key, if overlooked, figures, starring in six of
Andy Warhol's films and inspiring the likes of
Robert Mapplethorpe and Robert Creeley. Presumably the first woman ever hired as fact-checker at
The New Yorker, Dean held brief editorial and proofreading positions at publications such as
Vogue before launching her very own bulletin of film reviews, the
All-Lavender Cinema Courier, in 1976.
