Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (March 26, 1928 – June 21, 2019) was an American writer and artist's model.
[1] She attended Black Mountain College and lived in Paris in the 1950s as part of the bohemian expatriate scene centered on James Baldwin, with whom she shared space in a literary magazine called New Story.
She translated a novel by the Marquis de Sade for Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press and worked for the International Herald Tribune.
She was bisexual and had a few love relationships with women, including María Irene Fornés from 1954 to 1957, and then Susan Sontag until 1958.
She also appeared in the documentary Regarding Susan Sontag, which was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014.