Maya Angelou / Joanne M. Braxton -- Elizabeth Bishop / David Crag Austin -- Louise Bogan / Janet Gray -- Gwendolyn Brooks / Nellie Y. McKay -- Willa Cather / Deborah Carlin -- Kate Chopin / Wai-chee Dimock -- Emily Dickinson / Suzanne Juhasz -- Joan Didion / Joan Zseleczky -- Hilda Doolittle / Adalaide Morris -- Jessie Fauset / Deborah E. McDowll -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman / Marjorie Pryse -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Carol Farley Kessler -- Ellen Glasgow / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Susan Glaspell / Veronica Makowsky -- Elizabeth Hardwick / Angeline Goreau -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Joanne M. Braxton -- Lillian Hellman / Pat A. Skantze -- Zora Neale Hurston / Craig Werner -- Sarah Orne Jewett / Marilee Lindermann -- Maxine Hong Kingston / Jeslyn Medoff -- Amy Lowell / Celeste M. Schenck -- Mary McCarthy / Wendy Martin -- Carson McCullers / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / Debra Fried -- Marianne Moore / Celeste Goodridge -- Toni Morrison / Carolyn C. Denard -- Anaïs Nin / Ellen G. Friedman -- Joyce Carol Oates / Ellen G. Friedman -- Flannery O'Connor / Patricia Yaeger -- Grace Paley / Anne Hiemstra -- Dorothy Parker / Gwen Crane -- Sylvia Plath / David Craig Austin -- Katherine Anne Porter / Wendy Martin -- Adrienne Rich / Harriet Davidson -- Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- Susan Sontag / Esther H. Schor -- Gertrude Stein / Harriet Scott Chessman -- Anne Tyler / Gwen Crane -- Alice Walker / Claudia Tate -- Eudora Welty / Candace Waid -- Edith Wharton / John Lowe
Summary
Presents commentary and analysis on American women writers from a variety of ethnic groups and genres. Entries include biographical information, critical analysis, and bibliographies of key primary and secondary works