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Volume 1 Lois McMaster Bujold...... 142 Publisher’s Note...... ix Eve Bunting...... 145 Introduction...... xi Octavia E. Butler...... 148 About the Editors...... xvii Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum...... 153 List of Contributors...... xix Hortense Calisher...... 155 Complete Table of Contents...... xxvii Bebe Moore Campbell...... 159 Mary Caponegro...... 163 Abigail Adams...... 1 Anne Carson...... 166 Alice Adams...... 5 Lorene Cary...... 169 Jane Addams...... 9 Ana Castillo...... 172 C. S. Adler...... 15 Willa Cather...... 176 Ai ...... 18 Lorna Dee Cervantes...... 183 JoAnne Akalaitis...... 21 Lan Samantha Chang...... 186 Zoë Akins...... 25 Joan Chase...... 189 Louisa May Alcott...... 27 Mary Coyle Chase...... 192 Paula Gunn Allen...... 32 Barbara Chase-Riboud...... 195 Isabel Allende...... 35 Susan Cheever...... 199 Dorothy Allison...... 40 Kim Chernin...... 202 Julia Alvarez...... 43 Kelly Cherry...... 205 Laurie Halse Anderson...... 47 Mary Boykin Chesnut...... 209 Maya Angelou...... 52 Alice Childress...... 212 Gloria E. Anzaldúa...... 58 Kate Chopin...... 216 Harriette Arnow...... 61 Sandra Cisneros...... 222 Margaret Atwood...... 64 Amy Clampitt...... 226 Varsha Bajaj...... 68 Michelle Cliff...... 229 Toni Cade Bambara...... 70 Lucille Clifton...... 232 Mary Barnard...... 75 Darrah Cloud...... 236 Djuna Barnes...... 78 Judith Ortiz Cofer...... 239 Andrea Barrett...... 83 Wanda Coleman...... 243 Ann Beattie...... 87 Laurie Colwin...... 246 Gina Berriault...... 91 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn...... 249 Doris Betts...... 94 J. California Cooper ...... 252 Elizabeth Bishop...... 97 Jayne Cortez...... 255 Amy Bloom...... 101 Moira Crone...... 258 Judy Blume...... 105 Rachel Crothers...... 262 Louise Bogan...... 109 H. D...... 265 Jane Bowles...... 112 Edwidge Danticat...... 271 Kay Boyle...... 115 Lydia Davis...... 275 Anne Bradstreet...... 120 Rebecca Harding Davis...... 279 Catherine Brady...... 124 Thulani Davis...... 283 Gwendolyn Brooks...... 127 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz...... 286 Rita Mae Brown...... 131 Mazo de la Roche...... 290 Pearl S. Buck...... 137 Anita Diamant...... 293

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Kate DiCamillo...... 296 Gail Godwin...... 475 Emily Dickinson...... 299 Frances Goodrich...... 479 Joan Didion...... 304 Caroline Gordon...... 482 Annie Dillard...... 309 Mary Gordon...... 486 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni...... 313 Jorie Graham...... 490 Harriet Doerr...... 316 Shirley Ann Grau...... 493 Ellen Douglas...... 319 Francine du Plessix Gray...... 499 Rita Dove...... 322 Joanne Greenberg...... 502 Rikki Ducornet...... 328 Susan Griffin...... 506 Alice Dunbar-Nelson...... 331 Charlotte L. Forten Grimké...... 509 Andrea Dworkin...... 334 Rosa Guy...... 513 Margaret Edson...... 339 Marilyn Hacker...... 516 Gretel Ehrlich...... 341 Janet Campbell Hale...... 520 Deborah Eisenberg...... 344 Nancy Hale...... 523 Margarita Engle...... 347 Martha Lacy Hall...... 526 Nora Ephron...... 350 Jane Hamilton...... 530 Louise Erdrich...... 354 Virginia Hamilton...... 533 Carolly Erickson...... 360 Lorraine Hansberry...... 537 Kathryn Erskine...... 363 Elizabeth Hardwick...... 543 Laura Esquivel...... 365 Joy Harjo...... 546 Mari Evans...... 368 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper...... 551 Jessie Redmon Fauset...... 372 Anne Hébert...... 554 Edna Ferber...... 376 Ursula Hegi...... 560 Rosario Ferré...... 380 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun...... 565 Aileen Fisher...... 384 Lillian Hellman...... 568 Dorothy Canfield Fisher...... 387 Amy Hempel...... 573 Zelda Fitzgerald...... 390 Beth Henley...... 577 Esther Forbes...... 393 Patricia Highsmith...... 582 Carolyn Forché...... 396 S. E. Hinton...... 586 Maria Irene Fornés...... 400 Mary Ann Hoberman...... 590 Paula Fox...... 404 Alice Hoffman...... 593 Judith Freeman...... 408 Linda Hogan...... 597 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman...... 411 Billie Holiday...... 603 Marilyn French...... 415 A. M. (Amy) Homes...... 608 Jean Fritz...... 419 Ellen Hopkins...... 613 Alice Fulton...... 422 Pauline Hopkins...... 618 Mary Gaitskill...... 425 Janette Turner Hospital...... 621 Zona Gale...... 428 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston...... 625 Tess Gallagher...... 431 Pam Houston...... 628 Mavis Gallant...... 434 Susan Howe...... 631 Cristina García...... 439 Tina Howe...... 635 Martha Gellhorn...... 442 Josephine Humphreys...... 638 Sandra M. Gilbert...... 445 Kristin Hunter...... 641 Ellen Gilchrist...... 448 Zora Neale Hurston...... 644 Charlotte Perkins Gilman...... 454 Rachel Ingalls...... 653 Nikki Giovanni...... 459 Shirley Jackson...... 656 Ellen Glasgow...... 463 Harriet Jacobs...... 660 Susan Glaspell...... 467 Tama Janowitz...... 663 Louise Glück...... 471 Gish Jen...... 666 Notable American Women Writers Complete Table of Contents xxix

Sarah Orne Jewett...... 671 Bobbie Ann Mason...... 851 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...... 680 Mary McCarthy...... 854 Diane Johnson...... 687 Jill McCorkle...... 859 Mary Johnston...... 692 Carson McCullers...... 865 Gayl Jones...... 695 Alice McDermott...... 871 Erica Jong...... 698 Terry McMillan...... 875 June Jordan...... 701 Sandra McPherson...... 880 Cynthia Kadohata...... 704 Louise Meriwether...... 883 Helen Keller...... 708 Eve Merriam...... 886 Adrienne Kennedy...... 711 Edna St. Vincent Millay...... 889 Jane Kenyon...... 715 Isabel Miller...... 893 Jamaica Kincaid...... 718 Anchee Min...... 896 A.S. King ...... 724 Margaret Mitchell...... 900 Barbara Kingsolver...... 730 L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery...... 903 Maxine Hong Kingston...... 734 Marianne Moore...... 906 Carolyn Kizer...... 739 Toni Morrison...... 911 Joy Kogawa...... 742 Thylias Moss...... 917 E. L. Konigsburg...... 745 Anna Cora Mowatt...... 920 Maxine Kumin...... 749 Lisel Mueller...... 924 Bharati Mukherjee...... 927 Alice Munro...... 932 Volume 2 Gloria Naylor...... 939 Complete Table of Contents...... vii Phyllis Reynolds Naylor...... 947 Lorine Niedecker...... 950 Jhumpa Lahiri...... 753 Marsha Norman...... 953 Thanhhà Lai...... 758 Naomi Shihab Nye...... 957 Anne Lamott...... 760 Flannery O’Connor...... 960 Nella Larsen...... 764 Joyce Carol Oates...... 967 Margaret Laurence...... 768 Sharon Olds...... 973 Wendy Law-Yone...... 772 Tillie Olsen...... 977 Ursula K. Le Guin...... 775 Julie Orringer...... 983 Meridel Le Sueur...... 780 Mary Pope Osborne...... 987 Andrea Lee...... 783 Rochelle Owens...... 990 Harper Lee...... 788 Cynthia Ozick...... 993 Joan Leegant...... 791 ZZ Packer...... 998 Madeleine L’Engle...... 795 Grace Paley...... 1002 Denise Levertov...... 799 Sara Paretsky...... 1009 Yiyun Li...... 803 Dorothy Parker...... 1013 Clarice Lispector...... 807 Suzan-Lori Parks...... 1018 Anita Loos...... 811 Linda Pastan...... 1021 Bette Bao Lord...... 817 Ann Patchett...... 1024 Beth Lordan...... 820 Katherine Paterson...... 1028 Audre Lorde...... 824 Edith Pearlman...... 1031 Amy Lowell...... 828 Ann Petry...... 1035 Lois Lowry...... 832 Tamora Pierce...... 1041 Marie Lu...... 835 Marge Piercy...... 1046 Alison Lurie...... 839 Andrea Davis Pinkney...... 1050 Paule Marshall...... 843 Sylvia Plath...... 1053 Jane Martin ...... 848 Carlene Hatcher Polite...... 1058 xxx Complete Table of Contents Notable American Women Writers

Mary Helen Ponce...... 1060 Elizabeth Strout...... 1263 Connie Porter...... 1063 Ruth Suckow...... 1268 Katherine Anne Porter...... 1066 May Swenson...... 1270 Dawn Powell...... 1074 Amy Tan...... 1273 Francine Prose...... 1077 Mildred D. Taylor...... 1280 E. Annie Proulx...... 1082 Sheila Ortiz Taylor...... 1283 Ayn Rand...... 1087 Megan Terry...... 1285 Jean Rhys...... 1092 Joyce Carol Thomas...... 1291 Anne Rice...... 1097 Jean Thompson...... 1294 Adrienne Rich...... 1101 Sophie Treadwell...... 1297 Laura Riding ...... 1104 Anne Tyler...... 1300 Elizabeth Madox Roberts...... 1107 Luisa Valenzuela...... 1303 Marilynne Robinson...... 1111 Mona Van Duyn...... 1307 Roxana Robinson...... 1116 Helena María Viramontes...... 1310 Judith Rossner...... 1120 Paula Vogel...... 1313 Susanna Rowson...... 1123 Cynthia Voigt...... 1317 Gabrielle Roy...... 1127 Kate Walbert...... 1320 Muriel Rukeyser...... 1130 Alice Walker...... 1323 Joanna Russ...... 1134 Margaret Walker...... 1328 Sonia Sanchez...... 1137 Wendy Wasserstein...... 1331 Mari Sandoz...... 1142 Mary Yukari Waters...... 1335 May Sarton...... 1146 Eudora Welty...... 1339 Lynne Sharon Schwartz...... 1151 Jessamyn West...... 1343 Evelyn Scott...... 1155 Edith Wharton...... 1347 Olive Senior...... 1158 Phillis Wheatley...... 1354 Mary Lee Settle...... 1163 Marianne Wiggins...... 1358 Anne Sexton...... 1167 Laura Ingalls Wilder...... 1362 Ntozake Shange...... 1172 Joy Williams...... 1367 Carol Shields...... 1176 Sherley Anne Williams...... 1371 Bapsi Sidhwa...... 1180 Ethel Wilson...... 1374 Leslie Marmon Silko...... 1183 Harriet E. Wilson...... 1377 Marisa Silver...... 1189 Sarah E. Wright...... 1380 Mona Simpson...... 1194 Elinor Wylie...... 1382 Elsie Singmaster...... 1198 Anzia Yezierska...... 1385 Agnes Smedley...... 1201 Jane Yolen...... 1389 Jane Smiley...... 1204 Marguerite Young...... 1392 Betty Smith...... 1209 Lee Smith...... 1211 Glossary of Literary Terms...... 1395 Laurel Snyder...... 1218 Notable American Women Writers by Cathy Song...... 1220 Date of Birth...... 1409 Susan Sontag...... 1224 Notable American Women Writers by Region... 1417 Elizabeth Spencer...... 1230 Notable American Women Writers by Form...... 1425 Jean Stafford...... 1237 Notable American Women Writers by Theme... 1433 Gertrude Stein...... 1242 Notable American Women Writers by Harriet Beecher Stowe...... 1250 Achievement or Award...... 1441 Susan Straight...... 1258