Anyone have a favorite female author at all?

Anyone have a favorite female author at all? Dec 20, 2019 3:18:33 GMT spiderwort likes this

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Post by RomyLovesMick on Dec 20, 2019 3:18:33 GMT

Dec 19, 2019 15:19:48 GMT spiderwort said:

Dec 19, 2019 6:13:03 GMT RomyLovesMick said:

Too many to list, but Jane Austen, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Virginia Woolf are particular favorites. Willa Cather wrote unparalleled novels about frontier life and the immigrant experience in America. Then there's the wicked wit and wisdom of Flannery O'Connor. Who else could write a screamingly funny story about a family that ends up murdered by an escaped prison convict? No one but O'Connor. Read her story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Read all of her stories, and her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, read her book of essays Mystery and Manners, and finally read her collected letters.

Wonderful post, Eowyn. There are so many really great ones, aren't there? Willa Cather happens to be my personal favorite for a variety of reasons, not least her talent. But you've made me think of two more I really treasure: Eudora Welty and Doris Lessing. I tend to love artists who write about the people and the places they know and love.

Hi Spider -
I love Welty and Lessing, too. One of the reasons I don't make lists like these is that I always fail to mention someone - and shame on me for not including Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. My bad! Here's Eudora Welty reading her story Why I Live at the P.O. I love her voice, and it's such a wonderful and funny story.