Kate Millett (1934– )
Activist and feminist writer best known for Sexual Politics (1970).
Cherríe Moraga (1952– )
Chicana playwright, poet, and essayist whose writings include The Last Genera-
tion: Poetry and Prose (1993) and Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994).
Bharati Mukherjee (1940– )
Fiction writer born into a Bengali Brahmin family in Calcutta who moved to the
United States to do graduate work at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her novels
include The Tiger’s Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), The Holder of
the World (1993), Leave It to Me (1997), Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree
Bride (2004). Other works include the nonfiction Days and Nights in Calcutta
(1977; revised, 1986), written with her husband, Clark Blaise, and The Haunting
Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (1987). Her short stories are collected in Darkness
(1985) and The Middleman (1988).
Gloria Naylor (1950– )
African American novelist whose works include the National Book Award–
winning The Women of Brewster Place (1982); Linden Hills (1985); Mama Day
(1988); Bailey’s Café (1992); The Men of Brewster Place (1998); and the semiau-
tobiographical 1996 (2005).
Marsha Norman (1947– )
Playwright whose works include the dramas Traveler in the Dark (1984), Lov-
ing Daniel Boone (1993), and The Last Dance (2003) and the musicals The Secret
Garden (1991) and The Color Purple (2005). She won the Pulitzer Prize for ’night,
Mother (1983).
Sharon Olds (1942– )
Poet whose works include Satan Says (1980), The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
(1983), The Dead and the Living (1984), The Gold Cell (1987), The Father (1993),
The Wellspring (1996), Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), The Unswept Room (2002), Strike
Sparks: Selected Poems (2004) and One Secret Thing (2008).
Mary Oliver (1935– )
Prolific poet who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive (1983).
Since 2000 she has published The Leaf and the Cloud (2000), What Do We Know
(2002), Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays (2003), Why I Wake Early: New
Poems (2004), Blue Iris: Poems and Essays (2004), Long Life: Essays and Other Writ-
ings (2004), New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (2005), Thirst: Poems (2006), Our
World (2007), Red Bird (2008), and Evidence (2009).
Cynthia Ozick (1928– )
Fiction writer who explores the theme of Jewish identity in her novels The Can-
nibal Galaxy (1983) and The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) and her short-story
collections The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1972), Bloodshed and Three Novel-
las (1976), and Levitation: Five Fictions (1982).