Alix kates shulman biography samples
Alix Kates Shulman has published twelve books, including four novels, three children's books, a biography of Emma Goldman and two edited collections of Goldman.
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Alix Kates Shulman
American novelist
Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism.
She is best-known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972), hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement."[1]
Her books have been translated into 12 languages.
She has taught writing and women's literature widely in the U.S., including at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu), where she held the Citizens Chair, New York University, The New School, the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Yale University.
She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.[2]
Early life and education
Shulman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 17, 1932, to Doro