The Norton Book of Women's Lives Author:Phyllis Rose Biographies of women: Maya Angelou, Simone de Beaufoir, Nina Berberova, Vera Brittain, Emile Carles, Nien Cheng, Jusith Ortiz Cofer, Colette, Jill Ker Conway, Eleanor Coppola, Bermadette Devlin, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Isak Dinesen, Marguerite Duras, M.F.K. fisher, Janet Frame, Anne Frank, Eugenia Semyonova Ginzburg, Natalia Ginzbrug, Vivian... more » Gornick, Emilh Hahn, Le Ly Hayslip, Lillian Hellman, Eva Hoffman, Billie Holliday, Zora Neale Hurston, Carolina Marie de Jesus, Joyce Johnson, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Onnie Lee Logan, Audre Lorde, Beryl Markham, Emma Mashinini, Mary McCarthy, Margaret Mead, Kate Millett, Jessica Mitford, Anne Moody, Eleanor Munro, Anais Nin, Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai, Nisa, Cynthia Ozick, Sylvia Plath, Santha Rama Rau, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, V. Sackville-West, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Kate Simon, Carolyn Kay Steedman, Gertrude Stein, Sara Suleri, Caitlin Thomas, Sophia Tolstoy, Anne Truitt, Marie Vassiltchokov, Virginia Woolf.« less