Twentieth-Century Women Writers


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Fiction & Drama

Allende, Isabel (1942-)

Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)

Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)

Bowles, Jane (1917-1973)

Boyle, Kay (1902-1992)

Byatt, A.S. (1936- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Cisneros, Sandra (1954- )

Didion, Joan (1934- )

Dinesen, Isac (Karen Blixen) (1885-1962)

Glaspell, Susan (1876-1948 )

Gordimer, Nadine (1923- )

Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)

Jackson, Shirley (1919-1965)

Kincaid, Jamaica (1949- )

Larsen, Nella (1891-1964)

Lee, Harper (1926- )

Lessing, Doris (1919- )

Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind and Erskin Caldwell's God's Little Acre. Published at Working Papers on the Web 6 (2003).

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)

Morrison, Toni (1931- )

Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)

Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)

Roy, Arundhati (1961- )

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Tan, Amy (1952- )

Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)


Chick Lit

"Chick lit." Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009).

"Lad lit as mediated intimacy" ["guy lit" novels, men writers]. Working Papers on the Web 13 (2009).


Poetry

Angelou, Maya

Armantrout, Rae

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bogan, Louise

DiPrima, Diane

Dove, Rita

Fraser, Kathleen

Graham, Jorie

Guest, Barbara

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Hejinian, Lyn

Howe, Fanny

Howe, Susan

Kyger, Joanne

Levertov, Denise

Lorde, Audre

Loy, Mina

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Moore, Marianne

Niedecker, Lorine

Ozick, Cynthia

Plath, Sylvia

Rich, Adrienne

Riding, Laura

Sexton, Anne

Smith, Stevie

Stein, Gertrude

Wakoski, Diane

Waldman, Anne


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