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
  • Recommended Sources on American Women Writers