women authors

An anthology of the best works of Mary Sarton. Includes her novels, journals, and poetry.

Relates the author's personal narrative of the time she spent in Ghana with other Black American expatriates.

Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.

A biography of twentieth-century American writer Joyce Carol Oates, drawing from personal letters and journals, as well as interviews with Oates, her family, friends, and colleagues to discuss the paradoxical relationship between her private life and public career, and examining the biographical issues that influence her writing.

A biography of Louisa May Alcott that traces the influence of her family life on her works.

Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.

A letter from Beatrix Potter to a young friend who is ill marks the origin of her famous tales.

The author of the popular books about Oliver and Amanda Pig describes her life, her daily activities, and her creative process, showing how all are intertwined.

The author describes how her love of words and her personal experiences evolved into a career as a writer.