Profiles of Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Pearl Buck, May Sarton, and Maya Angelou, five women known for their outstanding contributions to American literature. Includes biographical sketches of other notable women authors.
Describes the life and writing career of the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as her victory over such obstacles as prejudice, poverty, and rape.
The novelist discusses her childhood in Cocoa, Florida in the late 1960s and early 1970s when America was riding the Space Race's tide of optimism, but the author's family found life on Earth often overwhelming.
Explores the writings of ten Jewish-American women authors, providing introductory essays, biographical data, critical excerpts, and bibliographies for such writers as Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Gertrude Stein.
Explores the use of voice, form, and setting in the works of twelve women authors who used their writings to construct a testament of their own identity, including Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, and Lillian Hellman.
Biography of Louisa May Alcott, discussing the disparities between her real life and the one depicted in her best-selling novel "Little Women," arguing that the book was written at the urging of Alcott's father, with whom she shared a contentious, but uncommonly strong bond.
