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Born August 27, 1933 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died November 5, 2017 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “My Mother/My Self: The Daughter’s Search for Identity” • “My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies”
Subjects Of Study psychology • personal identity
Role In women’s rights movement
Camille Paglia
American academic
Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
Anne Roiphe
American feminist and author
Annette Kolodny
American literary critic
Esther Forbes
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John Martin
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Tom Lea
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Anna Bartlett Warner
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Norman Maclean
American author and teacher
Quentin Reynolds
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jim Backus
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Marchette Chute
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
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Tillie Olsen
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Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
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Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington
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“America's most popular woman minister”
Joyce Meyer
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