Reviews

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology Of Autobiographical Narratives By Twentieth Century American Women Writers by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, May Sarton, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Kate Millett, M.F.K. Fisher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia Hampl, Dorothy Day, Sandra Cisneros, Jane O'Reilly, Madeleine L'Engle, Annie Dillard, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mary Crow Dog, Ann Cornelisen, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Beverly Donofrio, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Ellen Glasgow, Lorene Cary, Jane Addams, Eileen Simpson, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Susan Cahill, Hortense Calisher, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Maya Angelou, Natalie Kusz, Mary Mebane, Joyce Johnson, Mary Antin, Edith Wharton, Nancy Mairs, Kate Simon, Shirley Abbott, Vivian Gornick, Diane Glancy, Maureen Howard, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Bogan, Nikki Giovanni

shiradest's review

3.0

Only partly finished this book, but the opening chapters and the introduction made it clear that these women need to be read more and that more women need to write.

I will put this book back on my to read list for when I have more time, because these writers lives deserve closer scrutiny, particularly as an aspiring novelist myself.

booksinblossom's review

4.0

Great selection of women writers with enthusiastic introductions by Susan Cahill.
Thanks to this book i discovered unknown and underappreciated authors. Especially grateful to meet Dorothy Allison, May Sarton, Diane Glancy and Kate Millet.

thndrkat's review

5.0

This is a wonderful collection of memoir excerpts by women writers and poets. I got it as a high school graduation present (great gift) and over the years I've kept coming back to it, like returning to a circle of old friends.