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Born August 27, 1933 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died November 5, 2017 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “My Mother/My Self: The Daughter’s Search for Identity” • “My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies”
Subjects Of Study psychology • personal identity
Role In women’s rights movement
Celebrated, then controversial
Naomi Wolf
American author
Camille Paglia
American academic
Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
Anne Roiphe
American feminist and author
Annette Kolodny
American literary critic
Esther Forbes
American author
John Martin
American dance critic
Jonathan Safran Foer
American author
Jim Backus
American actor
Quentin Reynolds
American journalist and writer
Tom Lea
American artist and writer
Norman Maclean
American author and teacher
Anna Bartlett Warner
American writer
Marchette Chute
American author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Tillie Olsen
American author
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
American author
Carl Hiaasen, 2024
Carl Hiaasen
American journalist and novelist