Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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1. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Camille Peri
Publication date: 2024

2. Carson McCullers: A Life

Author: Mary V. Dearborn
Publication date: 2024

3. Didion and Babitz

Author: Lili Anolik
Publication date: 2024

4. Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

Author: Gail Crowther
Publication date: 2024

5. Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Author: Francesca Peacock
Publication date: 2024

6. Riding like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publication date: 2024

7. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publication date: 2024

8. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Author: Sara B. Franklin
Publication date: 2024

9. Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

Author: Boel Westin
Publication date: 2024

10. Zora Neale Hurston

Author: Cheryl R. Hopson
Publication date: 2024

11. A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Mark Borthwick
Publication date: 2023

12. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Author: Joanna Biggs
Publication date: 2023

13. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

Author: Benjamin Taylor
Publication date: 2023

14. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Author: Carmela Ciuraru
Publication date: 2023

15. Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

Author: Vincent Carretta
Publication date: 2023

16. Reckoning

Author: V
Publication date: 2023

17. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

Author: Clare Carlisle
Publication date: 2023

18. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence

Author: David Waldstreicher
Publication date: 2023

19. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Author: Anna Funder
Publication date: 2023

20. A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

Author: Cathy Curtis
Publication date: 2022

21. As Told by Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969

Author: Lorna Martens
Publication date: 2022

22. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Author: Hilary A. Hallett
Publication date: 2022

23. Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides: A Biography

Author: Paul Clements
Publication date: 2022

24. A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters

Author: Patricia Rigg
Publication date: 2021

25. Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

Author: Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publication date: 2021

26. In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

Author: Salamishah Tillet
Publication date: 2021

27. Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice

Author: Ina C. Seethaler
Publication date: 2021

28. Sybille Bedford: A Life

Author: Selina Hastings
Publication date: 2021

29. Templates for Authorship: American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s

Author: Windy Counsell Petrie
Publication date: 2021

30. The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

Author: Andrew D. Kaufman
Publication date: 2021

31. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Author: Fiona Sampson
Publication date: 2021

32. Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer

Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publication date: 2020

33. Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities

Author: Andrea Fernández-García
Publication date: 2020

34. I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary: A Memoir of Time and Place

Author: Margaret Randall
Publication date: 2020

35. Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy

Author: Janine Utell
Publication date: 2020

36. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Author: Heather L. Clark
Publication date: 2020

37. Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Author: Leslie Brody
Publication date: 2020

38. Square Haunting: Five Lives in London between the Wars

Author: Francesca Wade
Publication date: 2020

39. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Author: Martha Ackmann
Publication date: 2020

40. Women's Letters as Life Writing, 1840–1885

Author: Catherine Delafield
Publication date: 2020

41. Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer

Author: Carol Sklenicka
Publication date: 2019

42. Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career

Author: Daryl W. Palmer
Publication date: 2019

43. Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend

Author: Roy Morris Jr.
Publication date: 2019

44. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

Author: Lucasta Miller
Publication date: 2019

45. Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Thomas Travisano
Publication date: 2019

46. Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother: Contexts in Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry

Author: Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Publication date: 2019

47. My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism

Author: Nancy K. Miller
Publication date: 2019

48. Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Author: Lyndall Gordon
Publication date: 2019

49. Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publication date: 2019

50. Sontag: Her Life and Work

Author: Benjamin Moser
Publication date: 2019