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A review by thndrkat
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
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.