WRITERS & AUTHORS

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

Svetlana Alexievich

On the Battle Lost

Maya Angelou

On the Pulse of Morning
Text

Hannah Arendt

Margaret Atwood

Spotty-Handed Villainesses

Margaret Atwood

Josephine Daskam Bacon

Girls of the Future

Karen Blixen

Two Genders
Danish

Judy Blume

Pearl S. Buck

China, My Foster Country
Manuscript

Willa Cather

Don’t Imitate NY

Willa Cather

Talk About Technique

Willa Cather

Superstition vs Investigation

Willa Cather

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

We Are Volcanoes

Ursula K. Le Guin

National Book Awards

Doris Lessing

Have You Found a Space?

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Transformation of Silence

Gabriela Mistral

Toni Morrison

Being Your Own Story

Toni Morrison

We Do Language
Transcript

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

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

Lionel Shriver

Cultural Appropriation

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

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

Marguerite Yourcenar

Entrait à l’Académie Française