Bexley, OH! is the memoir of a girl described by a classmate as “The original Goth” growing up in and out of the epicenter of Nixon territory, Bexley, Ohio. It is juxtaposed with the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case and its effect on her father and their stormy and violent relationship.

Her father was former Navy commander turned insurance executive whose favorite person in the world next to Jesus Christ was Richard Nixon. He always said regarding Watergate, “the President was framed.” He often warned that the Pope had plans to take over the world just like Nikita Khrushchev. In fact, he suspected they were in collusion, trying to destroy thier way of life. When JKF, a man he called “The Pope’s puppet” was elected, he wore a black armband and warned “soon enough, we’ll all be a bunch of mackerel snappers”- meaning no more of his beloved T-bone steaks on Fridays.
The daughter, described by the NY Times as "a born subversive" challenged everything her father held dear with disastrous results. They became mortal enemies. It was only after his death, she learned of another side of him that partially redeemed him in her eyes and helped her resolve their turbulent relationship.

Willa Cather was the second woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1923. She was also a transgender male for several years in the 1880's until she was almost expelled from college for her relationship with a female classmate. She always said, "being a woman never damaged my ambition to become Pope or Emperor."

Janet St Vincent Levine, a naive aspiring poet tries to make her mark in the far out world of Beat poets in the 1950's.

Vanessa Bell, the artist who was Virginia Woolf's sister, was married and pregnant when she met the painter, Duncan Grant. Though he was her brother's lover, they fell madly in love and began a relationship which would last 50 years. They created great art together.They had a daughter together and lived a Bohemian lifestyle on a commune in 1918. But there were always the other men Duncan could not give up. One of them, the writer,David Garnett,, was so furious at Duncan for choosing Vanessa over him, he vowed to wait 20 years and marry their daughter as an act of revenge. And he did.