women writers

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

 
By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
Nature

How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
The Booker Revisited

The Booker Revisited: On Love’s Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

By Lucy Scholes  September 1, 2023
The Booker Revisited

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood’s Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

By Lucy Scholes  July 31, 2023
News and Culture

Rory Green on Her Mother, International Bestselling Novelist Jackie Collins

By Rory Green  July 11, 2023
The Lives of Women

Women on the Verge: The Jazz Age Origins of Burnout

By Marsha Gordon  July 5, 2023
rebirth

Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

By Joanna Biggs  June 1, 2023
Southern literature

Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself

By Katy Simpson Smith  April 18, 2023
Cocktails

Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

By Jennifer Croll  April 13, 2023
Literary Biography

The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

By Heather Clark  February 9, 2023
Writer's Lives

Ayşegül Savaş on the Work and Career of Turkish Writer Tezer Özlü

By Aysegül Savas  February 3, 2023
American Icons

Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama

By Sarah Ladipo Manyika  February 2, 2023
Literary Biography

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
Sci-Fi

How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

By Lisa Yaszek  October 11, 2022
Motherhood

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz  September 12, 2022
Overlooked Women

Ada Calhoun on Ouida, The Most Famous Lady Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of

By Ada Calhoun  June 13, 2022
Forgotten Classics

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

By Emmeline Clein  May 9, 2022
Literary History

Learning from the Work Muriel Rukeyser Left Unfinished

By Rowena Kennedy-Epstein  April 14, 2022
Women Writers

Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant to Reading Women?

By Mary Ann Sieghart  March 8, 2022
Bookstores

Persephone Books: Finding Space for Women Writers For Two Decades

By Christina Obolenskaya  November 22, 2021
Literary History

“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

By Maureen Freely  September 16, 2021
Overlooked Women

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

By Joy Castro  September 2, 2021
The Hub

“There is an inclination to punish women.” Elizabeth Hardwick on writing while female.

By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
The Hub

Read Nella Larsen’s 1922 application to the NYPL’s library school.

By Vanessa Willoughby  March 30, 2021
The Writing Life

How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy

By Paulina Bren  March 19, 2021
Creative Partnerships

Isabel Allende on Literary Ambition and the Power of Mentorship

By Isabel Allende  March 2, 2021
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