Author Listings (Women Authors)
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| Nevada Barr is the author of a series of mysteries involving national parks. She draws on her own experience as a National Park Service ranger to thrill readers with the majesty of nature. Anna Pigeon, the heroine of such novels as A Superior Death and Endangered Species is a rough-and-tough ranger who left the wilds o....[more] |
| Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge University Press, 1983; paperback editions, 1988 and 2008), and Literature in America (Cambridge University Press, 1989), which was a main selection ....[more] |
| Eileen Goudge was born July 4, 1950 and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She began writing at the age of eight. At eighteen, she ran off with a man dodging the draft, and a year later, returned home from British Columbia with a baby and broke. She began writing non-stop and managed to sell a few articles. In the ....[more] |
| Kyoko Mori’s award-winning first novel, Shizuko's Daughter, was hailed by the New York Times as “a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.” Her many critically acclaimed books include Polite Lies, The Dream of Water, and the novels, Stone Field, True Arrow and One Bird (....[more] |
| John Clayton (www.johnclaytonbooks.com) is an independent journalist, essayist, and business writer based in Montana. John's major book, "The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart," is a narrative biography of the Montana/Wyoming novelist, journalist, and homesteader Caroline Lockhart. It was a finalist for the 20....[more] |
| Poet, mother, wife, sometime scholar, former college professor, and part-time desert rancher, who now lives in the Los Angeles basin. My poetry collection, IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS, received the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Prize and was published by Bear Star Press in Fall 2009. It includes many award-winning poems previously ....[more] |
| Marion Meade is the author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City.
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| Carl Rollyson is a professor of English at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has written several biographies of prominent writers and has contributed essays to numerous reference works. He lives in Cape May, NJ. |
| Nelson Algren was an American writer born 28 March 1909 in Detroit, Michigan. His stories were heavily influenced by Chicago and he provided an authentic picture of the darker shades of city life. His name at birth was Nelson Ahlgren Abraham and he was the youngest of three children. At age three, he moved with his pa....[more] |
| It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more] |
| Referred to as an eccentric and ground-breaking writer, Djuna Barnes’ upbringing seems to have left her no choice but be unique. Her grandmother had been an important writer in the Women’s Suffrage movement and her father had tried his hand at almost every art form available to him and failed at each one. Barnes’ educa....[more] |
| A talented Frenchwoman known for her complex novels and strong feminist views. Simon de Beauvoir was born in 1908 in Paris. Beauvoir was educated at an all girl’s school and lived a fairly comfortable life until after World War I when her grandfather went bankrupt, throwing the family finances into disarray. Her father....[more] |
| Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a woman writer during the Restoration in England. She was one of the first women to earn a living through her writing. Behn was raised by Catholic parents Bartholomew Johnson and Elizabeth Denham and went on to become a family nurse before stepping into the writing scene....[more] |
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