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Great Women Writers
A Rebel in Life and Fiction:
Kate Chopin and Her Writings
According to some scholars Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening may have surpassed the popularity and critical status of Melville’s Moby-Dick as a staple of American literature courses in universities and colleges. How critical currents are subject to change!
Horses and Courses: Jane Smiley
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley is a brilliant and opinionated writer, a prose stylist capable of writing not only novels and stories, but also compelling nonfiction.
Jayne Anne Phillips:
Shaping Stories and Storytellers
Even though she has only a small body of work to her credit, Jayne Anne Phillips is a major force in contemporary American literature, both as a writer and as a teacher.
Previously in Firsts
1993 – Gabriel García Márquez, Ernest Hemingway
2003 – Thornton Wilder
Books into Film
Wise Blood