This volume profiles more than 150 women whose works have greatly influenced American writing. Each profile features an in-depth examination of its subject's biography, literary and personal influences as well as a discussion of each writer's major works, and a further reading section listing sources for further study on the author or her works. Profiles include: Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1711), Nonfiction writer; Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Novelist; Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Autobiographer; Nellie Bly (1865 ...
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This volume profiles more than 150 women whose works have greatly influenced American writing. Each profile features an in-depth examination of its subject's biography, literary and personal influences as well as a discussion of each writer's major works, and a further reading section listing sources for further study on the author or her works. Profiles include: Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1711), Nonfiction writer; Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Novelist; Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Autobiographer; Nellie Bly (1865-1922), Journalist; Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), Novelist and biographer; Toni Morrison (1931-present), Novelist and essayist; Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-present), Novelist and memoirist; and Rita Dove (1952-present), Poet and short story writer.
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