Published in 2012
100 pages
Elaine Ambrose is the author of Menopause Sucks and an author of five other books. Her short stories and feature articles appear in several anthologies and magazines.
AK Turner is the creator of The Writers’ Block on Radio Boise. She writes a humor column for the Boise City Revue and served as a Writer-in-Residence.
What is this book about?
Essays on drinking with Dorothy Parker, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Erma Bombeck, The Bronte Sisters, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Margaret Mead, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand and Virginia Woolf.
Facts about Dead Women Writers:
- Most early female writers used pen names because women weren’t regarded as competent writers.
- Margaret Mitchell wrote only one published novel in her lifetime, but Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and sold more than 30 million copies.
- Emily Dickinson was so paranoid that she only spoke to people from behind a door.
- Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at age 22. Her husband wanted them to commit suicide in the French countryside, but she refused.
Ambrose and Turner explore these and other intriguing facts about the most famous (but departed) women in literary history.
