A to Z of Women: American Women Writers
A to Z of Women: American Women Writers
Editor/Author
Kort, Carol
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-5008-6
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count:
56
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This engaging resource examines the stories of women from a wide array of cultures and generations who share a love of writing. These women are also united by the unique challenges facing women writers - some having to opt for masculine pen names in order to be published.
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Table of Contents
- Women and Literature
- A
- Adams, Abigail
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Allen, Paula Gunn
- Alvarez, Julia
- Angelou, Maya
- Antin, Mary
- Arnow, Harriette Simpson
- Auel, Jean
- Austin, Mary Hunter
- B
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Barnes, Djuna
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blume, Judy
- Bly, Nellie
- Bogan, Louise
- Bombeck, Erma
- Bonfils, Winifred Black
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Boyle, Kay
- Bradstreet, Anne
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brown, Margaret Wise
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Butler, Octavia E.
- C
- Carson, Rachel
- Cather, Willa
- Child, Lydia Maria
- Chin, Marilyn
- Chopin, Kate
- Chute, Carolyn
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Clampitt, Amy
- Clifton, Lucille
- Cornwell, Patricia
- D
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- Dickinson, Emily
- Didion, Joan
- Dillard, Annie
- Dove, Rita
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
- E
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Erdrich, Louise
- F
- Fauset, Jessie
- Ferber, Edna
- Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy
- Flanner, Janet
- Foster, Hannah Webster
- Freeman, Mary Wilkins
- Fuller, Margaret
- G
- Gaitskill, Mary
- García, Cristina
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Glaspell, Susan
- Glück, Louise
- Godwin, Gail
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Gordon, Mary
- Grafton, Sue
- Graham, Katharine
- H
- H. D.
- Hale, Sarah
- Hamilton, Edith
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Harper, Frances E. W.
- Hellman, Lillian
- Henley, Beth
- Herbst, Josephine
- Hoffman, Alice
- Hogan, Linda
- Howe, Julia Ward
- Hurst, Fannie
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- J
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Jackson, Shirley
- Jacobs, Harriet
- Jen, Gish
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Johnson, Georgia Douglas
- Jong, Erica
- K
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Kumin, Maxine
- L
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Larsen, Nella
- Lazarus, Emma
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Lee, Harper
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Levertov, Denise
- Loos, Anita
- Lorde, Audre
- Lowell, Amy
- Lurie, Alison
- M
- Marshall, Paule
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- McCarthy, Mary
- McCullers, Carson
- McDermott, Alice
- McMillan, Terry
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Miller, Sue
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Mohr, Nicholasa
- Moore, Lorrie
- Moore, Marianne
- Morrison, Toni
- Mourning Dove
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Murray, Judith Sargent
- N
- Naylor, Gloria
- Nin, Anaïs
- Norman, Marsha
- Norris, Kathleen
- Norton, Andre
- O
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Olds, Sharon
- Oliver, Mary
- Olsen, Tillie
- Otsuka, Julie
- Ozick, Cynthia
- P
- Paley, Grace
- Paretsky, Sara
- Parker, Dorothy
- Perillo, Lucia
- Petry, Ann
- Piercy, Marge
- Plath, Sylvia
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Portillo Trambley, Estela
- Powell, Dawn
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Q
- Quindlen, Anna
- R
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Rice, Anne
- Rich, Adrienne
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Roberts, Nora
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Rose, Wendy
- Ross, Ishbel
- Rowlandson, Mary
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- S
- Sanchez, Sonia
- Santiago, Esmeralda
- Sarton, May
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
- Settle, Mary Lee
- Sexton, Anne
- Shange, Ntozake
- Shreve, Anita
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Simon, Kate
- Smith, Anna Deavere
- Sontag, Susan
- Stafford, Jean
- Steel, Danielle
- Stein, Gertrude
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Strout, Elizabeth
- Swenson, May
- T
- Tan, Amy
- Tarbell, Ida
- Teasdale, Sara
- Thompson, Dorothy
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tsukiyama, Gail
- Tuchman, Barbara
- Tyler, Anne
- U
- Uchida, Yoshiko
- V
- Vogel, Paula
- W
- Walker, Alice
- Walker, Margaret
- Warren, Mercy Otis
- Wasserstein, Wendy
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Dorothy
- Wharton, Edith
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Wilson, Harriet E. Adams
- Wylie, Elinor
- Y
- Yamamoto, Hisaye
- Yezierska, Anzia
- Z
- Zitkala-Sa
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