A Voice of One's Own: Conversations with America's Writing Women

In this engaging and lively collection of conversational profiles, 28 powerful and individual voices reflect on what inspires, directs, infuriates, and sustains them. The writers featured range in age from thirty-two to ninety and represent a cross-section that encompasses differences in race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and lifestyle. In addition to well-known authors, A Voice of One's Own introduces some less familiar writers of growing prominence whom readers will want to discover on their own. -Louise Erdrich on chronicling family myth -Diane Johnson on the role of memory in fiction -M.F.K. Fisher on the difficulty of writing for magazines -Gloria Naylr on the awakening of her ethnic identity -Amy Tan on the differences between male and female writers Conversations with Alison Lurie, Amy Tan, Gloria Naylor, Gail Godwin, Joynce Carol Oates, Diane Johnson, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Marge Piercy, carole Maso, M.F.K. Fisher, Francine Prose, Alice McDermott, Rosellen Brown, Carolyn See, Laurie Colwin, Joyce Carol Thomas, Shirley Ann Grau, Kate Braverman, Louise Erdrich, Anne Lamott, Josephine Humphreys, Harriet Doerr, Elizabeth Winthrop, Janet Lewis, Irini Spanidou, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Mona Simpson, and Nancy Willard. 28 photographs.