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''' text Maryse Holder, author of Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico, posthumous book of letters written from Mexico to friend in New York City. Maryse Holder was born in Paris on October 19, 1940. Her mother, a member of the French Resistance, died in a concentration camp after being sent to Germany by the Vichy government. She came to America, as a stateless person, with her father when she was seven years old. She was a Ph.D candidate in comparative literature at City University of New York. who, after being dismissed as Professor in mass firing due to NYC fiscal problems, pursued life exploring sex in Mexico. She was killed by her Mexican lover in September 1977. Give Sorrow Words, the book based on her explorations of lust and desire,, which took place in two separate journeys during the last months of her life, was published by Grove Press in 1979. A movie based on this book, "A Winter Tan," starring Jackie Burroughs, was shown at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals in 1988.