Women Of Words: A Personal Introduction To Forty-five Important Writers Second Edition

Bukovinsky Teacher, Janet; Powell, Jenny

ISBN 10: 0762410787 / ISBN 13: 9780762410781

Published by Running Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women Of Words: A Personal Introduction To Forty-five Important Writers Second Edition
• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762410787
• ISBN 13: 9780762410781
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 36 ounces

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Synopsis

This revised and expanded edition celebrates the classics of literature by women from the last two centuries. Poetic, full-color portraits accompany biographical introductions to each writer, followed by carefully chosen excerpts from each woman's works. New to the pages of this elegant treasury are Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, contemporary Canadian author Margaret Atwood, Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston, prolific fiction and nonfiction writer Joyce Carol Oates, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, 19century French writer and social activist Georges Sand, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, Souther writer Carson McCullers, and Charlotte Brontë, author of the beloved classic Jane Eyre.

About the Author

Janet Bukovinsky Teacher is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Food and Wine, and other national publications. She received a National Magazine Award in 1993. At Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College, she pursued her interest in Women's literature and studied creative writing with Adrienne Rich. Jenny Powell, a graduate of Great Britain's Bournemouth School of Art, had a long and successful career as a fashion artist before turning to portraiture as her métier. Since then, she has executed portraits of numerous distinguished individuals and captains of industry, and has had her work published in Gourmet Magazine and Time. She currently lives in London.