PO Box 283 Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 302-227-5558 A&M Books is a feminist  publishing company founded in 1995 by Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford. The founders passed the torch to publisher Fay Jacobs in 2005.   New books from a pioneering publisher! A&M Books presents:  Fried & True - Tales from Rehoboth Beach (2007)  As I Lay Frying- a Rehoboth Beach Memoir (2004),  Both are  collections of  essays by Fay Jacobs   Celebrating Hotchclaw (2005) a novel by Ann Allen Shockley All 14 of the Sarah Aldridge novels are also still available through A&M Books, including the last Aldridge novel O,Mistress Mine. You can purchase  the Aldridge novels  by sending $12 each  plus $2 each handling  to: A&M Books P.O. Box 283, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 Click here for ORDER FORM You can purchase Celebrating Hotchclaw  by sending $17 plus $2 handling to: A&M Books P.O. Box 283, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971. For more info, click here. Muriel Inez Crawford April 21, 1914 – June 7, 2006   Longtime Rehoboth Beach resident, Muriel Inez Crawford, 92, passed away June 7 at her South Rehoboth home, surrounded by her loving circle of friends. Born on April 21, 1914 in Washington , DC , Crawford served as an executive secretary at the Washington law firm of Covington and Burling, followed by a position as executive secretary to the president of the Southern Railroad, now Amtrak. Crawford, along with her partner of 57 years, Anyda Marchant, who pre-deceased Crawford this past January, began coming to Rehoboth Beach on weekends in the early 1960’s. They first owned a weekend home in Rehoboth and then, upon retirement in 1972, moved to a downtown beach home. The house became the site of legendary Saturday evening salons, where cocktails, conversation and an amazingly diverse crowd would gather – neighbors, clergy, writers, musicians – young and old, gay and straight filled the large front porch . In the winter, the cocktails and conversation would relocate to the couple’s home in Pompano Beach , FL. In 1972, the couple founded Naiad Press , an independent feminist publishing house, and then founded A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach in 1995. At the time of her death, Crawford was Publisher Emeritus with A&M Books. Crawford is survived by a niece and nephew and a family of dear friends.

Anyda Marchant (Sarah Aldridge)   1911-2006 Anyda Marchant, 94, a retired attorney, novelist and publisher died Jan. 11, 2006 at her home in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Marchant, who wrote 14 novels under the pen name Sarah Aldridge was a founder of the legendary feminist publishing imprint Naiad Press in 1972 and A&M Books in 1995 Ms. Marchant was born in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , moving with her family to Washington , DC at age 6.  In 1933 she earned her law degree from the National University of Washington, DC (now George Washington University ), and was admitted to practice in Virginia , DC, and before the U.S. Court of Claims and U. S. Supreme Court. As a law student, she served for a year as assistant to women’s rights pioneer Alice Paul, who was then doing the first research for an equal rights amendment. In 1940, she was appointed assistant in the Law Library of Congress.  When the man who was head of the section was drafted, Marchant was appointed in his place.  When he returned in 1945, she relinquished the post, but declined, on principle, a lesser position offered.  In her law career she became one of the first women attorneys at the law firm now known as Covington & Burling, then moved to the World Bank,   where she worked for 18 years until her 1972 retirement. and Burling.  That same year, Marchant and her life partner Muriel Crawford founded the Naiad Press as a vehicle for publishing Marchant's first novel, The Latecomer, written under the pen name Sarah Aldridge. From there, Naiad became an avenue for the publication of other feminist and lesbian literature.  In 1974 Naiad Press was formally incorporated in Delaware . Marchant served as Naiad president from its inception until the mid-1990’s.  Naiad published eleven Sarah Aldridge novels and grew to be a powerhouse in feminist publishing. In 1995 Marchant and Crawford withdrew from Naiad, and began their own publishing company, A&M Books in Rehoboth Beach . A&M published the last three Sarah Aldridge novels along with the book As I Lay Frying, a Rehoboth Beach Memoir by author Fay Jacobs. Passionate about supporting feminist writers, Marchant continued her publishing and mentoring activities until very recently, highlighted by A&M’s October  release of the novel  Celebrating Hotchclaw by feminist literary icon Ann Allen Shockley. Marchant and Crawford’s Rehoboth home has been the site of decades of  Saturday evening salons, where cocktails, conversation and an amazingly diverse crowd would gather – neighbors, clergy, writers, musicians – young and old, gay and straight – on the large front porch . In the winter, the cocktails and conversation would relocate to the couple’s home in Pompano Beach , FL. Of her many activities, Marchant recalls proudly organizing the very first National Organization of Women meeting in Delaware when she started a Rehoboth chapter. Marchant was followed in death only four months later by Crawford, her partner of 57 years,. A&M Books will continue under the leadership of  Managing Editor Fay Jacobs. All of the Sarah Aldridge books are still in print and are available (for independent bookstores) through Bella Distributors or individual buyers by contacting AandMPublishers@aol.com.