Story Larger Than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers

Name: Story Larger Than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers
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ISBN: 9780226014104

ISBN-10: 022601410X

ISBN-13: 9780226014104

Edition: 2014

Authors: Janet Burroway

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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazinebut not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work.Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/27/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Janet Burrowayis the author of eight novels, includingThe BuzzardsandRaw Silk; two best-selling textbooks,Writing FictionandImaginative Writing; and the forthcoming memoirLosing Tim. She is also the author of numerous plays, short stories, poetry collections, and children's books. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University and divides her time between Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Chicago.