"and friend Ainsley was inspired by Annesley Hall at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, to which Atwood belonged. The all-female residence building, which was built in 1903, was the first university residence building for women in Canada. The Edible Woman The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated. As Marian begins endowing food with"
"for Doctor Frankenstein"", Cranbrook Academy of Art (1966); as well as, ""The Animals in That Country"" (1968). Atwood's first novel, ""The Edible Woman"", was published in 1969. As a social satire of North American consumerism, many critics have often cited the novel as an early example of the feminist concerns found in many of Atwood's works. Atwood taught at York University in Toronto from 1971 to 1972 and was a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto during the 1972/1973 academic year. A prolific period for her poetry, Atwood published six collections over the course of the decade: ""The Journals of"
"1955. Between 1955 and 1958 Bradbury moved between teaching posts with the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the United States. He returned to England in 1958 for a major heart operation; such was his heart condition that he was not expected to live beyond middle age. In 1959, while in hospital, he completed his first novel, ""Eating People is Wrong"". Bradbury married Elizabeth Salt and they had two sons. He took up his first teaching post as an adult-education tutor at the University of Hull. With his study on Evelyn Waugh in 1962 he began his career of"
"A Moveable Feast A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young migrant journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book, first published in 1964, describes the author's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson. The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. He provides specific addresses of apartments, bars, cafes, and hotels — many of which can still be found in Paris today. Among other notable persons, people featured in the book include: Sylvia Beach, Hilaire"
"founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Atwood's work has been of interest to feminist literary critics, despite Atwood's unwillingness at times to apply the label ""feminist"" to her works. Starting with the publication of her first novel, ""The Edible Woman"", Atwood asserted, ""I don't consider it feminism; I just consider it social realism."" Despite her rejection of the label at times, critics have analyzed the sexual politics, use of myth and fairytale, and gendered relationships in her"
"The Women of Brewster Place (novel) The Women of Brewster Place (1982) is the debut novel of American author Gloria Naylor. It won the National Book Award in category First Novel. It was adapted as the 1989 miniseries ""The Women of Brewster Place"" and the 1990 television show ""Brewster Place"" by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. ""The Women"" explores the lives of both men and women in an urban setting and examines relationships, both in terms of friendship and romantic love, including homosexual relationships. In each of the ""Seven Stories"" of its subtitle, one or more of the seven women are"
"Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century. The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often"
"""The New York Times Book Review"", and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984. Novels Story collections Essays Padgett Powell Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ""Edisto"" (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in ""The New Yorker"". Powell has written five more novels—including ""A Woman Named Drown"" (1987), ""Edisto Revisited"" (1996), a sequel to his debut, ""Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men"" (2000), ""The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?"" (2009), and ""You & Me"" (2012), his"
"Nobody"" in the ""Best First Novel"" category. Additionally, her story ""Cold Turkey"" won the 1993 Anthony Award for ""Best Short-story"". Diane Mott Davidson Diane Mott Davidson (born ) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly, ""The Cereal Murders""), she references a prestigious eastern"
"first novel, ""Emmeline"" (1788), was a success, selling 1500 copies within months. She wrote nine more novels in the next ten years: ""Ethelinde"" (1789), ""Celestina"" (1791), ""Desmond"" (1792), ""The Old Manor House"" (1793), ""The Wanderings of Warwick"" (1794), ""The Banished Man"" (1794), ""Montalbert"" (1795), ""Marchmont"" (1796), and ""The Young Philosopher"" (1798). Smith began her career as a novelist during the 1780s at a time when women's fiction was expected to focus on romance and to foreground ""a chaste and flawless heroine subjected to repeated melodramatic distresses until reinstated in society by the virtuous hero"". Although Smith's novels employed this structure,"
"Padma Lakshmi Padma Lakshmi, Lady Rushdie ( Tamil: பத்மா லட்சுமி, ; born Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan; September 1, 1970) is an American author, actress, model, television host, and executive producer. Her debut cookbook ""Easy Exotic"" won her the ""Best First Book"" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US cooking competition program ""Top Chef"" since season two in 2006 (entering season 16 December 2018) for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009 for Outstanding Reality Host. Her debut memoir ""Love, Loss and What We Ate"" was released on International Women's Day,"
"Oates was a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016. Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I"
"Eliza Smith Eliza Smith (d. 1732?) was one of the most popular female 18th-century cookbook writers. Unlike other popular woman cookbook authors whose books overlapped with hers, such as Hannah Glasse, nothing seems to be known about her personal life beyond the fact that she was one of the first popular female cookbook authors. Her one book, ""The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion"" (London: J. Pemberton, 1727), went through 18 editions in Britain and in 1742 Smith became the first cookbook author published in colonial America. Prior to her death, the name published in her book was E___ S____."
"Edna Staebler Edna Staebler, (January 15, 1906 – September 12, 2006) was a Canadian author and award-winning literary journalist, best known for her series of cookbooks, particularly ""Food That Really Schmecks"" which is currently available in e-book form. While the book contains Mennonite recipes, the content also includes stories and anecdotes about life and home cooking in the rural areas of the Waterloo Region. Edna Staebler was born in Berlin, Ontario (renamed Kitchener during World War I) in 1906 and grew up there. Edna's birth certificate shows her name was originally registered as Cora Margaret Cress and later changed, (by"
"The Girls (Cline novel) The Girls is a 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline. It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate. The majority of the novel is set in 1969 and focuses on 14 year old Evie Boyd who feels isolated and unloved and ends up spending the majority of that summer with a group of teenage girls on a ranch who are all devoted to a man named Russell. In the present day Evie Boyd is an elderly woman with few ties. An old friend of hers allows her"
"Kaye Gibbons Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her first novel, ""Ellen Foster"" (1987), received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and two of her books, ""Ellen Foster"" and ""A Virtuous Woman"", were selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998. Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina,"
"where she received her bachelor's degree in Education (1951). In 1955 she won a national television competition for her script ""Minority of One"". Her first and most acclaimed novel, ""God Bless the Child,"" was published in 1964, and won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award. Like most of her work, it confronts complex issues of race and gender. Her 1966 novel ""The Landlord"" was made into a movie by Hal Ashby (United Artists, 1970). Her 1973 collection of short stories, ""Guests in the Promised Land"", was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1972, she began teaching in the English department"
"Dorothy Uhnak Dorothy Uhnak [ˈjunæk] (April 24, 1930 – July 8, 2006; née Goldstein) was an American novelist. Uhnak was born in New York City. She attended City College of New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detective for the New York City Transit Police Department. Uhnak's debut book, ""Policewoman"" (1964), was a non-fiction autobiographical account of her law enforcement career. After its publication, she left police work and devoted herself to writing full-time. Her first novel, ""The Bait"" (1968), received a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of"
"Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I Lived For"" (1994), ""Blonde"" (2000), and short story collections, ""The Wheel of Love"" (1970) and ""Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories"" (2014)"
"The Girl (novel) The Girl (1939; 1978) is a novel by Meridel Le Sueur set during Prohibition and chronicling the development of a young woman from a naive small-town girl into a participant in a bank robbery. It tells the story of a nameless girl from rural Minnesota who works in a bar in St. Paul. Clara, a fellow waitress working as a prostitute on the side, takes the girl under her wing as she learns the rudimentaries of love and sex, but also of rape, prostitution, abortion, and domestic violence. Along with the bar-owner Belle and the labor organizer"
"The Flame and the Flower The Flame and the Flower (published 1972) is the debut work of romance novelist Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. The first modern ""bodice ripper"" romance novel, the book revolutionized the historical romance genre. It was also the first full-length romance novel to be published first in paperback rather than hardback. As a child, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss relished creating her own stories, and by age six was telling herself stories at night to help fall asleep. After she married, Woodiwiss continued to think of plots. Several times she attempted to write a novel, but each time stopped in"
"is, as you pronounce it, the grave of thousands”. The financial mismanagement of Gibbes’ father-in-law, a compulsive gambler, was the eventual cause of her extreme poverty; parental neglect and a strong aversion to gambling are manifest in many of Gibbes' novels. Gibbes first entered the world of English literature with a double-debut in 1764: the controversial ""The Life and Adventures of Mr. Francis Clive"" (1764) and the epistolary novel, ""History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honorable Miss Caroline Stretton"" (1764). Three years after her debut, Gibbes published two novels, ""The Woman of Fashion; or, the History of Lady Diana"
"Padgett Powell Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ""Edisto"" (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in ""The New Yorker"". Powell has written five more novels—including ""A Woman Named Drown"" (1987), ""Edisto Revisited"" (1996), a sequel to his debut, ""Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men"" (2000), ""The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?"" (2009), and ""You & Me"" (2012), his most recent—and three collections of short stories. In addition to ""The New Yorker"", Powell's work has appeared in ""The Paris Review"", ""Harper's"", ""Grand Street"", ""Oxford American"","
"""The Worm Ouroboros"" (1922) and for three volumes set in the imaginary world Zimiamvia, known as the Zimiamvian Trilogy: ""Mistress of Mistresses"" (1935), ""A Fish Dinner in Memison"" (1941), and ""The Mezentian Gate"" (1958). These early works of high fantasy drew strong praise from J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, (alongside whom he was considered an occasional member of the Inklings) and later, Ursula K. Le Guin. Tolkien generally approved Eddison's literary style, but found the underlying philosophy rebarbative; while Eddison in turn thought Tolkien's views ""soft"". Other admirers of Eddison's work included James Stephens, who wrote the introduction"
"Kathleen Winsor Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003) was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel ""Forever Amber"". The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut. Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California. Her father was a real-estate dealer. At the age of 18, Winsor made a list of her goals for life."
"the John Ford and John Wayne war movie, ""They Were Expendable"". Her first novel, ""Seven Poor Men of Sydney"" (1934), dealt with the lives of radicals and dockworkers, but she was not a practitioner of social realism. Stead's best-known novel, titled ""The Man Who Loved Children,"" is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940. It was not until the poet Randall Jarrell wrote the introduction for a new American edition in 1965 that the novel began to receive a larger audience. In 2005, the magazine ""Time"" included this work in their ""100 Best Novels from"
"Emily Cheney Neville Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the ""New York Daily News"" and the ""New York Daily Mirror"" newspapers. She had five children with her husband, Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, and lived in New York City. Her first book, ""It's Like This, Cat"" (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include: ""Berries Goodman"" (1965); ""The Seventeen-Street Gang"" (1966); ""Traveler From a Small Kingdom"""
"An Inconvenient Woman An Inconvenient Woman is a 1990 novel by Dominick Dunne. Its plot centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles high society, and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenient woman of the title. The hardcover edition () was released by Crown Publishers. The paperback () was published by Ballantine Books. Behind-the-scenes Hollywood intrigue, the underworld of laundered money, illegal drugs, and prostitution, and the foibles of the extremely wealthy and those who serve them,"
"that was not what she wanted to do, she dropped out of her course and held a number of occupations: she has been a file clerk, waitress, shop assistant, and assistant librarian. Her first professional sale came from ""Eustace,"" a ninety-word vignette at the age of 21 in 1968. She continued to work in various jobs for almost another decade, due to rejection of her books. Her first novel (for children) was ""The Dragon Hoard"", published in 1971 by Macmillan. Many British publishers rejected ""The Birthgrave"" thus she wrote to DAW Books. Her career really took off with the acceptance"
"A Garden of Earthly Delights A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967. It was her second book published and it inaugurated the so-called Wonderland Quartet (1967 to 1971). It was a finalist for the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. ""A Garden"" sets out to explore social class in America and the inner lives of its youngsters. It follows heroine Clara Walpole, a very beautiful daughter of a Kentucky-born farmer. The novel brings to life Clara's ill-fated life and the four men who shaped it: Clara’s father, an utterly"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. In it, a contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations. In autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a brownstone apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs"
"then, her writing has been published in multiple journals, and in 2016 she published ""The Girls"", her debut novel. Cline's first novel, ""The Girls"", was published in 2016 by Random House Publishing. Cline was offered a $2 million advance by Random House, who outbid 11 other publishers for the novel. American film producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to book shortly before it was acquired by the Random House. The novel is based in part off of the Charles Manson cult and murders of the late 1960s. The story is told from the view point of Evie Boyd, a"
"novels ""Durable Goods"", ""Joy School"", and ""True to Form"" form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Most recently, her essay ""The Pretend Knitter"" appears in the anthology ""Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting"", published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013. Elizabeth Berg (author) Elizabeth Berg (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist. Berg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English at the University of Minnesota, but later ended"