Jill Ker Conway

Written by Herself: Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307797322
• Artikelnr.: 45038274

Autorenporträt

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. In 1962 she married John Conway and moved with him to his native Canada. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto, where she was also Vice President, before going to Smith College. Since 1985 she has been a visiting scholar and professor in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She serves on the boards of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive, and as Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation. She lives in Boston.