Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writingis a comprehensive, authoritative and hugely enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Combined in this book are novelists such as Iris Murdoch and Toni Morrison; literary theorists such as Helene Cixous and Susan Sontag; and poets such as Sylvia Plath and Fleur Adcock. Unique in its breadth of coverage, the volume covers works established and well-loved, as well as those new and fascinating for the reader.