November is an illustrious months for my literary heroines, since so many of them were born in it! First up, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, born on this day in 1900. Here are some fun facts about the fearless Peggy: ~ Like me, Peggy was a Smithie who didn’t graduate from the
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I recently had the pleasure of having coffee with the well-spoken and fascinating Nava Atlas, a writer, vegan cook, and visual artist whose popular Dear Literary Ladies blog is currently being turned into a book. We were talking about the way the Internet has revolutionized the idea of being a
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At the beginning of this whole entire process, I faced a nervewracking choice: I wanted to write about great heroines of literature. But did I want to limit my perspective to just female authors? In the end, I decided yes and focused on heroine/author pairs whose qualities complimented or offset
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One of the most gratifying parts of writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf was discovering the backstories behind the women who wrote some of my favorite books. And it wasn’t all fun and friends. During the course of the book, I got to look at the underbelly of some of these women’s
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Now that the illustrious day has arrived, I can let the cat out of the bag: My panel with fellow Laura fan and writer Wendy McClure, Loving Laura in a Lindsay Lohan World, has been accepted for the 2010 Laurapalooza Little House on the Prairie fan and academic convergence this
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