from Boston. Amy Tan, author of “The Joy Luck Club.” “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan This beloved classic follows four Chinese women and their daughters living as new immigrants in San ...

These female authors weren’t just ahead of the literary curve. They were rewriting it. This article dives into 8 classic books by women who dared to be different — stories that explored ...

Five of the six books to make "the cut" are written by female authors – a stark departure ... The way he "compresses, subverts and enlarges Twain’s classic" is "clever and exciting", added ...

preaches to other women, “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, / Thy head, thy sovereign.” U.S. author Anne Tyler retells the Shakespeare classic in “Vinegar Girl,” whose ...

Classic writers like Sylvia Plath, Zora Neale Hurston, and Virginia Woolf paved the path, and expressed their thoughts through their writing. Woolf highlights in A Room of One’s Own the ...

Whether classic literature or YA fiction ... Not only that, the average female author sells more books than the average male author. In all this, the book market is an outlier when compared ...

These details illuminate whose voices have been privileged historically and where opportunities exist to platform diverse writers and forms. Female authors comprised just over a quarter of the VCE ...