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WRITERS & AUTHORS

Svetlana Alexievich

On the Battle Lost

Maya Angelou

On the Pulse of Morning
     Text

Hannah Arendt

Sonning Prize

Margaret Atwood

Spotty-Handed Villainesses

Margaret Atwood

Power of Women

Josephine Daskam Bacon

Girls of the Future

Karen Blixen

Two Genders
     Danish

Judy Blume

Dear Judy

 

Pearl S. Buck

China, My Foster Country
     Manuscript

Willa Cather

Don’t Imitate NY

Willa Cather

On the Novel

Willa Cather

Talk About Technique

Willa Cather

Superstition vs Investigation

Inga Clendinnen

Impossibility of Biography
     Audio

Carmen Conde Abellán

Poetry Before Time
     Spanish

Nora Ephron

Choose Not to Be a Lady
     Transcript

Nikki Giovanni

We Are Virginia Tech

Nadine Gordimer

Writing and Being

Lorraine Hansberry

A Challenge to Artists

 

Lorraine Hansberry

The Nation Needs Your Gifts

 

Shirley Hazzard

Questions, Not Explanations

Fannie Hurst

Action Instead of Lip-Service

Elfriede Jelinek

Sidelined
     Transcript

Helen Keller

Power of the Spoken Word

Selma Lagerlöf

Nobel Prize speech

Selma Lagerlöf

Home and State
     Swedish

Ursula K. Le Guin

National Book Awards

Ursula K. Le Guin

We Are Volcanoes

 

Doris Lessing

Have You Found a Space?

Audre Lorde

Transformation of Silence

 

Audre Lorde

A Woman Speaks

Gabriela Mistral

Nobel Speech

Toni Morrison

We Do Language
     Transcript

Toni Morrison

Being Your Own Story

Herta Müller

Solitude of a Human Being

 

Anaïs Nin

Hampshire College 1972

Edna O’Brien

Country Girls Trilogy

 

Flannery O’Connor

The Catholic Writer

 

Flannery O’Connor

Grotesque in Southern Fiction
     Audio

 

Linda Sue Park

A Children’s Book

 

Dorothy Parker

The Land I Won’t Return To

 

Nélida Piñón

Premio Príncipe de Asturias
     Spanish

 

Ayn Rand

At West Point

Ayn Rand

Sanction of the Victims

Adrienne Rich

Claiming an Education

J.K. Rowling

Harvard 2008
     Transcript

 

Nelly Sachs

Nobel Prize speech

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lost Tools of Learning

Kate Brownlee Sherwood

Piracy of Brains

Zadie Smith

The Few and the Many

 

Susan Sontag

Be Bold! Be Bold! Be Bold!

Muriel Spark

Desegregation of Art

Bella Spewack

After the Final Curtain

Gertrude Stein

Lectures in America

Wisława Szymborska

The Poet and the Word

Mildred D. Taylor

Life in America

 

Olga Tokarczuk

The Drug Edition

 

Sigrid Undset

Nobel Prize

 

Ida Vitale

Cervantes Prize 
     Spanish

 

Margaret Walker

On Richard Wright

 

Ida B. Wells

Afro-American in Literature

 

Rebecca West

Goodness’s Doesn’t Just Happen

 

Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare’s Sister

 

Virginia Woolf

Craftsmanship

 

Marguerite Yourcenar

Entrait à l’Académie Française