Book

Writing women's lives : an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth century American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill.

1st ed.

New York, NY : HarperPerennial, ©1994.

xviii, 509 pages ; 24 cm

Writings from Jane Addams, Ellen Glasgow, May Sarton, Joan Didion, Nancy Mairs, Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, Natalie Kusz, and many others, reflecting on their lives, their work, their worlds, connectedness, and commitment to community.

Women authors, American -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

American prose literature -- Women authors.

American prose literature -- 20th century.

Women and literature -- United States.

Autobiography -- Women authors.

Biographies.

Cahill, Susan, 1940-

Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-509).

Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935) -- Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) -- Mary Antin (1881-1949) -- Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) -- Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) -- M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) -- Eudora Welty (1909- ) -- Hortense Calisher (1911- ) -- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) -- May Sarton (1912- ) -- Kate Simon (1912-1990) -- Tillie Olsen (1913- ) -- Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ) -- Eileen Simpson (1920- ) -- Denise Levertov (1923- ).

Ann Cornelisen (1926- ) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Maureen Howard (1930- ) -- Mary Mebane (1933- ) -- Shirley Abbott (1934- ) -- Joan Didion (1934- ) -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934- ) -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934- ) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Kate Millett (1934- ) -- Vivian Gornick (1935- ) -- Joyce Johnson (1935- ) -- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) -- Jane O'Reilly (1937- ) -- Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Diane Glancy (1941- ) -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Nancy Mairs (1943- ) -- Annie Dillard (1945- ) -- Patricia Hampl (1946- ) -- Dorothy Allison (1949- ).

Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) -- Bebe Moore Campbell (1950- ) -- Beverly Donofrio (1950- ) -- Bell Hooks (1952- ) -- Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) -- Mary Crow Dog (1955- ) -- Lorene Cary (1956- ) -- Natalie Kusz (1962- ).

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