Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover for the first time negl

American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II. Recent auth

Presents a biographical dictionary profiling important women authors, including birth and death dates, accomplishments and bibliography of each author's work.

For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collect

In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous,