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Notable American women writers, editors Laura Nicosia, James F. Nicosia

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

collective biography

illustrations

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Notable American women writers

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editors Laura Nicosia, James F. Nicosia

Notable American Women Writers provides in-depth critical essays on women who are at the top of their game in all areas of writing, from picture books to scholarly writing, from poetry to screenplays, from memoir to philosophy. The women writers featured in this set have been selected to represent not only all types of writing, but all areas of the Americas, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica, and more. The women in these volumes are artists, social transformers, builders, thinkers, poets, playwrights, populists, elit­ists, products of their society, and shapers of their culture. They write on such vital issues as sexuality and gender, women's rights and privileges, wars of their eras, civil rights, literary criticism, mental illness, child-rearing, and identity., Provided by publisher

Volume 1: Abigail Adams; Alice Adams; Jane Addams, C. S. Adler; Ai; JoAnne Akalaitis; Zoë Akins; Louisa May Alcott; Paula Gunn Allen; Isabel Allende; Dorothy Allison; Julia Alvarez; Laurie Halse Anderson; Maya Angelou; Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Harriette Arnow; Margaret Atwood; Varsha Bajaj; Toni Cade Bambara; Mary Barnard; Djuna Barnes; Andrea Barrett; Ann Beattie; Gina Berriault; Doris Betts; Elizabeth Bishop; Amy Bloom; Judy Blume; Louise Bogan; Jane Bowles; Kay Boyle; Anne Bradstreet; Catherine Brady; Gwendolyn Brooks; Rita Mae Brown; Pearl S. Buck; Lois McMaster Bujold; Eve Bunting; Octavia E. Butler; Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum; Hortense Calisher; Bebe Moore Campbell; Mary Caponegro; Anne Carson; Lorene Cary; Ana Castillo; Willa Cather; Lorna Dee Cervantes; Lan Samantha Chang; Joan Chase; Mary Coyle Chase; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Susan Cheever; Kim Chernin; Kelly Cherry; Mary Boykin Chesnut; Alice Childress; Kate Chopin; Sandra Cisneros; Amy Clampitt; Michelle Cliff; Lucille Clifton; Darrah Cloud; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Wanda Coleman; Laurie Colwin; Elizabeth Cook-Lynn; J. California Cooper; Jayne Cortez; Moira Crone; Rachel Crothers; H. D.; Edwidge Danticat; Lydia Davis; Rebecca Harding Davis; Thulani Davis; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Mazo de la Roche; Anita Diamant; Kate DiCamillo; Emily Dickinson; Joan Didion; Annie Dillard; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Harriet Doerr; Ellen Douglas; Rita Dove; Rikki Ducornet; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Andrea Dworkin; Margaret Edson; Gretel Ehrlich; Deborah Eisenberg; Margarita Engle; Nora Ephron; Louise Erdrich; Carolly Erickson; Kathryn Erskine; Laura Esquivel; Mari Evans; Jessie Redmon Fauset; Edna Ferber; Rosario Ferré; Aileen Fisher; Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Zelda Fitzgerald; Esther Forbes; Carolyn Forché; Maria Irene Fornés; Paula Fox; Judith Freeman; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Marilyn French; Jean Fritz; Alice Fulton; Mary Gaitskill; Zona Gale; Tess Gallagher; Mavis Gallant; Cristina García; Martha Gellhorn; Sandra M. Gilbert; Ellen Gilchrist; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Nikki Giovanni; Ellen Glasgow; Susan Glaspell; Louise Glück; Gail Godwin; Frances Goodrich; Caroline Gordon; Mary Gordon; Jorie Graham; Shirley Ann Grau; Francine du Plessix Gray; Joanne Greenberg; Susan Griffin; Charlotte L. Forten Grimké; Rosa Guy; Marilyn Hacker; Janet Campbell Hale; Nancy Hale; Martha Lacy Hall; Jane Hamilton; Virginia Hamilton; Lorraine Hansberry; Elizabeth Hardwick; Joy Harjo; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Anne Hébert; Ursula Hegi; Carolyn Gold Heilbrun; Lillian Hellman; Amy Hempel; Beth Henley; Patricia Highsmith; S. E. Hinton; Mary Ann Hoberman; Alice Hoffman; Linda Hogan; Billie Holiday; A. M. (Amy) Homes; Ellen Hopkins; Pauline Hopkins; Janette Turner Hospital; Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; Pam Houston; Susan Howe; Tina Howe; Josephine Humphreys; Kristin Hunter; Zora Neale Hurston; Rachel Ingalls; Shirley Jackson; Harriet Jacobs; Tama Janowitz; Gish Jen; Sarah Orne Jewett; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Diane Johnson; Mary Johnston; Gayl Jones; Erica Jong; June Jordan; Cynthia Kadohata; Helen Keller; Adrienne Kennedy; Jane Kenyon; Jamaica Kincaid; A. S. King; Barbara Kingsolver; Maxine Hong Kingston; Carolyn Kizer; Joy Kogawa; E. L. Konigsburg; Maxine Kumin --Volume 2: Jhumpa Lahiri; Thanhhà Lai; Anne Lamott; Nella Larsen; Margaret Laurence; Wendy Law-Yone; Ursula K. Le Guin; Meridel Le Sueur; Andrea Lee; Harper Lee; Joan Leegant; Madeleine L'Engle; Denise Levertov; Yiyun Li; Clarice Lispector; Anita Loos; Bette Bao Lord; Beth Lordan; Audre Lorde; Amy Lowell; Lois Lowry; Marie Lu; Alison Lurie; Paule Marshall; Jane Martin; Bobbie Ann Mason; Mary McCarthy; Jill McCorkle; Carson McCullers; Alice McDermott; Terry McMillan; Sandra McPherson; Louise Meriwether; Eve Merriam; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Isabel Miller; Anchee Min; Margaret Mitchell; L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery; Marianne Moore; Toni Morrison; Thylias Moss; Anna Cora Mowatt; Lisel Mueller; Bharati Mukherjee; Alice Munro; Gloria Naylor; Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Lorine Niedecker; Marsha Norman; Naomi Shihab Nye; Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Sharon Olds; Tillie Olsen; Julie Orringer; Mary Pope Osborne; Rochelle Owens; Cynthia Ozick; ZZ Packer; Grace Paley; Sara Paretsky; Dorothy Parker; Suzan-Lori Parks; Linda Pastan; Ann Patchett; Katherine Paterson; Edith Pearlman; Ann Petry; Tamora Pierce; Marge Piercy; Andrea Davis Pinkney; Sylvia Plath; Carlene Hatcher Polite; Mary Helen Ponce; Connie Porter; Katherine Anne Porter; Dawn Powell; Francine Prose; E. Annie Proulx; Ayn Rand; Jean Rhys; Anne Rice; Adrienne Rich; Laura Riding; Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Marilynne Robinson; Roxana Robinson; Judith Rossner; Susanna Rowson; Gabrielle Roy; Muriel Rukeyser; Joanna Russ; Sonia Sanchez; Mari Sandoz; May Sarton; Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Evelyn Scott; Olive Senior; Mary Lee Settle; Anne Sexton; Ntozake Shange; Carol Shields; Bapsi Sidhwa; Leslie Marmon Silko; Marisa Silver; Mona Simpson; Elsie Singmaster; Agnes Smedley; Jane Smiley; Betty Smith; Lee Smith; Laurel Snyder; Cathy Song; Susan Sontag; Elizabeth Spencer; Jean Stafford; Gertrude Stein; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Susan Straight; Elizabeth Strout; Ruth Suckow; May Swenson; Amy Tan; Mildred D. Taylor; Sheila Ortiz Taylor; Megan Terry; Joyce Carol Thomas; Jean Thompson; Sophie Treadwell; Anne Tyler; Luisa Valenzuela; Mona Van Duyn; Helena María Viramontes; Paula Vogel; Cynthia Voigt; Kate Walbert; Alice Walker; Margaret Walker; Wendy Wasserstein; Mary Yukari Waters; Eudora Welty; Jessamyn West; Edith Wharton; Phillis Wheatley; Marianne Wiggins; Laura Ingalls Wilder; Joy Williams; Sherley Anne Williams; Ethel Wilson; Sarah E. Wright; Elinor Wylie; Anzia Yezierska; Jane Yolen; Marguerite Young -- Glossary of literary terms -- Notable American Women Writers by Date of Birth -- Notable American Women Writers by Region -- Notable American Women Writers by Form -- Notable American Women Writers by Theme -- Notable American Women Writers by Achievement or Award