Ann Jurecic

Ann Jurecic’s newest book, Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000, explores the essay’s transformations in the mid-to-late twentieth century (2023). The book includes chapters about Rachel Carson, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Patricia J. Williams. Jurecic's first book, Illness as Narrative (2012), charts the emergence of personal writing about illness in the twentieth century. She has coauthored three editions of Habits of the Creative Mind (2023), a guide for essayists. She has also written book reviews for The Lancet.