FYI Review - This anthology of essays contains the following:
-Introduction: Diva Complex by Michael Montlack
-Sappho (630 BC): Love, I Implore You in Polyester Lapels by Michael Broder
-Queen Elizabeth I (1533): Heart of a King by Patrick Letellier
-Virginia Woolf (1882): This Perpetual Revision of Thought by Brian Teare
-Margaret Dumont (1882): Duchess of Dignity by Christopher Murray
-Bessie Smith (1892): Empty Bed Blues by Sam J. Miller
-Claude Cahun (1892): Masks, Makeup, Meaning by Peter Dube
-Gracie Allen (1895): Comic Muse by Lloyd Schwartz
-Lotte Lenya (1898): Devine Weltschmerz by David Bergman
-Gloria Swanson (1899): Sunset Boulevard by Edward Field
-Marlene Dietrich (1901): Falling in Love Again by Walter Holland
-Joan Crawford (1905) versis Bette Davis (1908): "But ya AHHH, Blanche!" by David Trinidad
-Lucille Ball (1911): Flaming Redhead by Lawrence Applebaum
-Mahalia Jack (1911): Divine One by Forrest Hamer
-Julia Child (1912): Life's Ingredients by Bil Fogle
-Billie Holiday (1915): Lady Day by Alfred Corner
-Edith Piaf (1915): A Share of Pain by Gregory Woods
-Evita Peron (1919): Santa with a Soundtrack by Guillermo Castro
-Grace Paley (1922): O Stone! O Steel! by Mark Doty
-Ava Gardner (1922): Small-Town Girl by C. Cleo Creech
-Aurora de Albornoz (1926): Tia Divina by Scott Hightower
-Joan Sutherland (1926): Dame Joan and I by Gary I. Jungquist
-Eartha Kitt (1927): Purrfectly Detached by D.A. Powell
-Betty Berzon (1928): Dinners with the Diminutive Diva by Jim Van Buskirk
-Jeanne Moreau (1928): Living Dangerously with Jeanne by Collin Kelley
-Jennifer Paterson ["Two Fat Ladies"] (1928): Cocktails with Jennifer by Jack Lynch
-Audrey Hepburn (1929): Adoration and the Icon by Joseph Capana
-Ms. Kiki Durane (Depression Era): Her Sound and Fury by Christopher Schmidt
-Elizabeth Taylor (1932): The Uber-Dive by Scott F. Stoddart
-Anna Moffo (1932): Her Funeral by Wayne Koestenbaum
-Nina Simone (1933): I Got It Bad for Bangles and Diamonds by Regie Cabico
-Julie Andrews (1935): My First Maria by Mark Wunderlich
-Tina Turner (1939): Tina and I by Jim Elledge
-Karen Black (1939): Diva of the Deranged by Michael Schiavi
-Raquel Welch (1940): As My Mother by Ron Palmer
-Julie Christie (1941): The Cocteau Girl by Cyrus Cassells
-Helen Reddy (1941): Before Anarchy by Richard Tayson
-Wonder Woman (1941): Exploring the Amazon by Jeff Oaks
-Diana Ross (1944): How to Reign Supreme by Jericho Brown
-Rocio Durcal (1944): The Day She Died by Rigoberto Gonzales
-Bette Midler (1945): First Loves by Steven Cordova
-Jessye Norman (1945): Als Ob Ich Sauseln Horte by Dante Michaeux
-Liza Minnelli (1946): Everybody Loves a Winner by Jason Schneiderman
-Cher (1946): History (1987-2000) by Aaron Smith
-Laura Nyro (1947): All She Asked of Living by Michael Klein
-Stevie Nicks (1948): "And Wouldn't You Love to Love Her?" by Michael Montlack
-Jessica Lange (1949): Isn't It a Laugh? by Allen Smith
-Patti LuPone (1949): Patti's Turn, in the Key of Diva by Jonathan Howle
-Wendy Waldman (1950): Seeds and Orphans by Paul Lisicky
-Cyndi Lauper (1953): The Sadness in Her Rasp by Steven Riel
-Rickie Lee Jones (1954): The Duchess of Coolsville by Timothy Liu
-Annie Lennox (1954): Desire, Despair, Desire by RJ Dibson
-Siouxsie Sioux (1957): Black Eyeliner and Dark Deams by Benjamin Harper
-Auntie Mame (1958): "I'm Going to Open Doors for You, Doors You Never Even Dreamed Existed" by Lewis Desimone