A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female experience. In Bookish Broads, Lauren Marino celebrates fierce, trailblazing female writers, reworking the literary canon that has long failed to recognize...

"An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live -- and to create -- with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War"--

An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930-and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and...

"Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work remains a vital contribution to black literature in the twentieth century. Through candid interviews, some of American literature's greatest luminaries highlight critical linkages between their work and their unique vantage points as black women. Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their craft, to others, and to society, the featured...