Phyllis Rose,Maya Angelou,Maxine Hong Kingston,Anne Frank,Virginia Woolf,Emma Mashinini,Onnie Lee Logan,Sara Suleri
"This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famousâ€”Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolfâ€”and the surprisingâ€”Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer; Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama "granny" midwife; Sara Suleri, an expatriate in America who reflects hilariously on the language of food in her native Pakistan.,"Destined to become a classic,"â€¡ this treasury of women's lives, brimming with intelligence, passion, wit, and determination, is a celebration of life itself.,*,Hungry Mind Review,**,Washington Post Book World,â€¡,Library Journal
Nonfiction,Feminism,Biography,History,Anthologies,Womens,Feminism,Womens Studies,Biography Memoir,Unfinished,Writing,Essays
The Norton Book of Women's Lives