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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicosia, Laura M., editor.

Nicosia, James F., editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Biography--Dictionaries.

Women authors, American.

American literature--Women authors--Dictionaries.

American literature.

Women in literature--Dictionaries.

Women in literature.

Women--Intellectual life--Dictionaries.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press : Grey House Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This title offers overviews and in-depth analysis of American women writers, from Colonial America to present day. It includes writers that represent not only all types of writing, but all areas of the Americas, and covers artists, social transformers, builders, thinkers, poets, playwrights, populists, elitists, products of their society, and shapers of their culture. Includes biographical details, plus a discussion of each writer's subject areas, contributions and more.

Contents:

volume 1. Abigail Adams

Alice Adams

Jane Addams

CS. Adler

Ai

JoAnne Akalaitis

Zo�e Akins

Louisa May Alcott

Paula Gunn Allen

Isabel Allende

Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Laurie Halse Anderson

Maya Angelou

Gloria E. Anzald�ua

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

Even 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 In�es 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 Ferr�e

Aileen Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Zelda Fitzgerald

Esther Forbes

Carolyn Forch�e

Maria Irene Forn�es

Paula Fox

Judith Freeman

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Marilyn French

Jean Fritz

Alice Fulton

Mary Gaitskill

Zona Gale

Tess Gallagher

Mavis Gallant

Cristina Garc�ia

Martha Gellhorn

Sandra M. Gilbert

Ellen Gilchrist

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nikki Giovanni

Ellen Glasgow

Susan Gaspell

Louise Gl�uck

Gail Godwin

Frances Goodrich

Caroline Gordon

Mary Gordon

Jorie Graham

Shirley An Grau

Francine du Plessix Gray

Joanne Greenberg

Susan Griffin

Charlotte L. Forten Grimk�e

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 H�ebert

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

Thanhh�a 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 Mar�ia 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

Harriet E. Wilson

Sarah E. Wright

Elinor Wylie

Anzia Yezierska

Jane Yolen

Marguerite Young.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642654240

1642654248

OCLC:

1190590103