Woman authors

Autora de uma obra ficcional vastíssima, muito marcada pela sua infância e juventude em África e pelas suas preocupações sociais e políticas, recebeu o Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 2007

One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—n…

Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, and Mary McCarthy offer reflections on memory from their fiction and memoir.

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening a visual biography of the author Sylvia Plath, including her rarely-seen artwork.

Donna Tartt has written three books in her thirty-year writing career—each intricate, fascinating, and hugely different from one another. She broke out in 1992 with her debut The Secret History, a tale of ritual, murder, and intrigue among an insular, intense group of college students at a small college in Vermont. She followed this almost a Last updated 1/17/18.

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Our 2020 Mom's Book Nook lineup features the best book club books for women written by female authors.

Genius, captured on camera.

We had typed our stories in the computer lab, and I remember thinking that mine looked professional. I was also pretty sure it was excellent. Fiction writing was not my strong suit—I would never have ranked myself up there with Travis, whose stories were universally regarded as hilarious, or Vanessa, whose imagination gave birth to […]