ANN R. SHAPIRO is Professor of English at the State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale. She is the author of Unlikely Heroines (Greenwood Press, 1987), and various articles and reviews on Jewish American women writers and nineteenth-century American women writers.

• Foreword by Sarah Blacher Cohen Introduction Mary Antin by Kristen Wasson Ann Birstein by Ludger Brinker E.M. Broner by Ann R. Shapiro Rosellen Brown by Karen Wilkes Gainey Hortense Calisher by Marcia Littenberg Kim Chernin by Jerilyn Fisher Andrea Dworkin by Meryl Schwartz Edna Ferber by Daniel Walden Rebecca Goldstein by Sylvia Barack Fishman Allegra Goodman by C. Beth Burch Joanne Greenberg by Barbara Lovenheim Lillian Hellman by Bruce Henderson Bette Howland by Babette Inglehart Fannie Hurst by Carol Batker Joyce Johnson by Blossom Kirschenbaum Erica Jong by Bruce Henderson Johanna Kaplan by Evelyn Avery Ilona Karmel by Sara Horwitz Shirley Kaufman by Devon Miller-Duggan Irena Klepfisz by Ronit Lentin Edith Konecky by Merla Wolk Maxine Kumin by Deborah Lambert Brown Emma Lazarus by Diane Lichtenstein Rhoda Lerman by Claire Satlof Karen Malpede by Cindy Rosenthal Emily Mann by Ellen Schiff Daphne Merkin by Carolyn A. Sofia Robin Morgan by Elizabeth Q. Sullivan Leslea Newman by Annie Dawid Tillie Olsen by Kay Hoyle Nelson Alicia Ostriker by Maeera Y. Shreiber Cynthia Ozick by S. Lillian Kremer Grace Paley by Victoria Aarons Linda Pastan by Gerda Norvig Marge Piercy by Jaye Berman Montresor Francine Prose by Rena Potok Nessa Rapoport by Sharon Deykin Baris Tova Reich by Blossom Kirschenbaum Adrienne Rich by Karen Alkalay-Gut Anne Roiphe by Carolyn Hoyt Norma Rosen by Suzanne Kligenstein Muriel Rukeyser by Janet Kaufman Susan Fromberg Schaeffer by Dorothy Bilik Lynne Sharon Schwartz by Susan Meyer Lore Segal by Adam Meyer Jo Sinclair by Gay Wilentz Tess Slesinger by Harvey Teres Susan Sontag by Sherry Linkon Bella Spewack by Elizabeth Drorbaugh Gertrude Stein by Linda Wagner-Martin Elizabeth Swados by Dorothy Chansky Wendy Wasserstein by Iska Alter Ruth Whitman by Miriyam Glazer Emma Wolf by Barbara Cantalupo Susan Yankowitz by Len Berkman Anzia Yezierska by Tobe Levin Helen Yglesias by Lewis Fried Jewish American Women's Autobiography by Barbara Shollar Glossary Index