The Feast of All Saints

…outsiders, in two historical novels, The Feast of All Saints (1979; TV movie 2001), about New Orleans’s 19th-century Creoles of color, and Cry to Heaven (1982), about an 18th-century Venetian castrato. Eroticism distinguishes The Sleeping Beauty series—four stories (1983–85 and 2015) published under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure, which some critics…