If you have young children who love to read, you may already know Amy Krouse Rosenthal, maybe without even realizing it — she’s a best selling author of over 30 award-winning books beloved by children, including “Duck! Rabbit!,” “Spoon,” “Yes […]
Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She identifies as an Anglo American and Mexican American, noting that she is ¼ Laguna Pueblo, a Native American tribe predominantly located along the Rio San […]
~from intern Joyce Bohling This month’s Fork Socket reading featured a giant game of Battleship. You know, Battleship: the game with the submarine, the cruiser, the aircraft carrier, and the destroyer, where you say “miss” so many times it starts […]
The name Sylvia Plath incites thoughts of deep, depressive poetry and a woman who abruptly ended her life. But her raw, revealing writing has inspired and influenced generations of new writers and poets. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath […]
Edith Wharton may not have published her first novel until she was 40 years old, but she was a prolific writer who actually began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, even writing a novella at age eleven. Publishing was seen as […]
“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” ~Gloria Steinem International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for women’s rights, […]
Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist born into slavery, originally named Isabella Baumfree. At eleven years old, after the death of her original owner and then his son, she was separated from her family, and sold at an auction with […]
The daughter of Chinese-American immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California. She is the author of two highly-acclaimed works of nonfiction—Woman Warrior and China Men—and has also written two novels and a number of more recent […]
Margaret Fuller is a woman known for her powerful feminist writings and her literary criticism. Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1810, she learned to read at the age of three. Her father refused to let her read the feminine books […]
~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I spent yesterday brainstorming a list of women to feature on the blog this month. It’s Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating specifically women who’ve made contributions to literature and education. Because there are so many, I […]