Women Writers Oral Reports Booklist Spring 2008 Kay Fowler

Diana Abu-Jaber (20th C. Jordanian Am.) Arabian Jazz (1993) Class 8.

Octavia Butler (African Am.), Dawn (1997) Class 12.

Carolyn Chute, (Working Class Euro. Am.) The Beans of Egypt Maine (1986) Class 5.

Sandra Cisneros (Chicana) The House on Mango Street (1989) Class 8.

Mary Crow Dog (Lakota Sioux) Lakota Woman (1990) Class 5.

Edwige Danticat (Haitian American) Breath, Eyes and Memory (1994) Class 8.

Ella Cara Deloria (Anpetu Waste Win -- Beautiful Day Woman) (Yankton Dakota) Waterlily (1944) Class 8.

Lousie DeSalvo (European American with disability) Breathless (1997) Class 11.

Joan Didion (European American), The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) Class 5.

Chitra Divakaruni (Indo-Am.), Arranged Marriage (1995) Class 7.

Louise Erdrich (French Ojibwe / German American/Chippewa) Tracks (1988) Class 8.

Leslie Feinberg (European Jewish Transgender) Stone Butch Blues (1993) Class 5.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (European American), Herland (1915) Class 12.
Vivian Gornick (European Jewish American), Fierce Attachments (1987) Class 5.

Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston (Japanese Nisei Amer.), Farewell to Manzunar (1973) Class 5.

Zora Neale Hurston (African Am.) Their Eyes Were Watching God (1936) Class 8.

Helen Keller, (European Am. with disability), The Story of My Life (1903) Class 11.

Sue Monk Kidd (European American), The Secret Life of Bees (2002) Class 5.

Jumpha Lahiri (Indo-Am.), The Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Class 7.

Ursula K. LeGuin, (European Am.), Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Class 12.Audre Lorde (African Am. Lesbian) The Cancer Journals (1980). Class 3.

Maria Elinor Lucas (Chicana with disability), Forged Under the Sun/Forjada Bajo el Sol: the Life of Maria Elena Lucas Class 11.

Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee with disability), A Chief and Her People (1993) Class 11.

M. Elaine Mar (Chinese American), Paper Daughter (1999) Class 5.

Demetria Martinez (Chicana Am.) Mother Tongue (1994) Class 13.

Toni Morrison (African American) The Bluest Eye (1990) Class 8.

Farnoosh Moshir (Iranian American) Against Gravity (2006) Class 8.

Frances Khirallah Noble (Arab American), The Situe Stories (2002) Class 7.

Marge Piercy (European Am. Jewish), Woman on the Edge of Time (1993) Class 12.
Esmerelda Santiago (Puerto Rican American), Almost a Woman (1998) Class 5.

Sapphire (African American), Push (1996) Class 5.

Lisa See (Chinese American) Snowflower and the Secret Fan (2005) Class 8.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (European American) Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898; 1993) Class 13.

Sara Suleri (Pakistani American), Meatless Days (1987) Class 5.

Suzie King Taylor (African American), A Black Woman's Civil War Memoir (1902) Class 5.

Amy Thomson (European Am.), The Color of Distance (1995) Class 12.

Helen Maria Viramontes (Chicana) Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) Class 8.

Anna Lee Walters (Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria) Ghost Singer (1988) Class 13.