We Are the Stories We Tell - by Wendy Martin (Paperback)

About the Book

A collection of top stories by bestselling literary writers. Chosen to reflect a full range of the lives of modern women in North America: a perfect introduction to postwar fiction by American women.

Book Synopsis

A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.

About the Author

WENDY MARTIN is chair of the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University. She is also the editor of More Stories We Tell (available from Pantheon). Martin founded and has continued to edit Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and is Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She lives in Berkeley, California.