Complete Table of Contents 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. 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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 xxvii xxviii Complete Table of Contents NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS 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 ..........................................................