Diana Abu-Jaber (20th C. Jordanian American), Arabian Jazz (1993).  Crescent (2003) Group 9
Jane Addams, (European American) Twenty Years at Hull-House (1909; 1990)   Group 4
Adnan, Etal (20th C. Lebanese Syrian Greek American) Sitt Marie Rose: A Novel (1997) Group 9
Ahmedi, Farah (with Taminm Ansary) (Afghan American) The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky (2005) Group 9
Dorothy Allison, (Working Class European American) Bastard Out of Carolina (1993);  Group 11
Julia Alvarez (Dominican American), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994);    Group 5
Maya Angelou, (African American) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (19  ),    Group 2
Atefat-Peckham, Susan.  (20th C. Iranian American)  That Kind of Sleep (2001)
Tara Bahrampour.  (20th C. Iranian American). To See and See Again:  A Life in Iran and America. (1999).   Group 9
Toni Cade Bambara. (African American)  The Salteaters. (1980) Group 11
Melba Pattillo Beals. (African American) Warriors Don't Cry:
    A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. (1994)    Group 2
Sandra Benitez.  (Salvadoran American) Bitter Grounds (1997) Group 5
Sara Tuvel Bernstein.  (Romanian Jewish Working Class American) The Seamstress:  A Memoir of Survival.  (1999).  Group 10
Ruthie Bolton, (African American)  Gal: A True Life (19 94);   Group 6
Beth Brant. (Degawadonti) (Bay of Quinte Mohawk Working Class Lesbian), Mohawk Trail Group 3
Tessa Bridal (Uragayan American) The Tree of Red Stars (1997)   Group 5
Rita Mae Brown.  Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) Group 3
Octavia Butler, (African American) Kindred, (1979).  Group 2
Willa Cather. (European American Lesbian), My Antonia (1918) Group 3
Lana Cao (Vietnamese American) Monkey Bridge (1997) Group 7.
Betsey Chamberlain (Algonkian/European Working Class American) The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker.  Collected and edited by Judith A. Ranta.  2003.  Group 11
Jaia Sun-Childers and Douglas Childers. Chinese American) The White Hired Girl:  Bittersweet Adventures of a Little Red Soldier.  1996. Group 7
Maria Chona (Papago) Papago Woman ed. Ruth Underhill (written 1930s, pub. 1979). Group 1
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (18 99) Group 4
Carolyn Chute, (Working Class Euro. American) The Beans of Egypt Maine (1986)  Group 11
Anna Julia Cooper.  (African American) Voice From the South (1892) Group 2
Hannah Crafts (African American) The Bondwoman's Narrative (mid 19thC.) Group 2
Annie Denton Cridge, Man's Rights or How Would You Like It? (1870) Group 4
Mary Crow Dog (Lakota Sioux) Lakota Woman (1990);  Group 1
Edwige Danticat. (African Haitian American) Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994);    Group 2
Rebecca Harding Davis, (19th C. European American) Life in the Iron Mills , (1861); Group 4
Delany, Sarah L. with Amy Hill Hearth (20th C. African American) On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie.  (1989) Group 12
de la Pena, Terri.  (Chicana Lesbian American) Margins (1992) Group 3
Ella Cara Deloria (Anpetu Waste Win -- Beautiful Day Woman)  (Yankton Dakota) Waterlily (1944); Group 1
Louise DeSalvo, (European American) Breathless: An Asthma Journal (1998) Group 6
Chitra Divakaruni (Indo-American) Arranged Marriage (1995); Group 8
Mourning Dove (Humishuma/Christine Quintasket), (Okonogan) Cogewea: The Half-Blood Group 1
Louise Erdrich, (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) Last Report of the Miracles of Little No Horse (2002) Group 12
Leslie Feinberg (European Jewish Lesbian American), Stone Butch Blues (1993) Group 3
Fannie Flagg. (European American). Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987). Group 12
Helen Fremont.  (Polish Jewish Lesbian American) After Long Silence:  A Memoir.  (2000) Group 3
Christine Garcia (Cuban American)  Dreaming in Cuban (1992)    Group 5
Debra Ginsberg (European Jewish Working Class American) Waiting: True Confessions of a Waitress. (2001) Group 11
Geraldine Glodek. (Polish Working Class American).  Nine Bells at the Breaker.  1998.  Group 10
Vivian Gornick (Jewish American) Fierce Attachments (1987) Group 10
Lucy Grealy (European American)  Autobiography of a Face.  (1994)  Group 6
Nicola Griffith. (European American Lesbian) Slow River (1995) Group 3
Janet Campbell Hale (Couer D'Alene) Bloodlines:  Odyssey of a Native Daughter (1993); Group 1
Juanita Harrison, (Working Class African Amer.) My Great, Wide, Beautiful World (1936); Group 11
Frances E. W. Harper. (19th C. African American) Iola Leroy (1892) Group 2
Lely Hayslip (Vietnamese American), When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1990)   Group 7
Donna Hemans. (Jamaican African American) River Woman: A Novel (2002) Group 2
Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)  Mean Spirits (1990) Group 1
Marya Hornbacher (European American) Wasted:  A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (1998).  Group 6
Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston. (20th C. Japanese Nisei Amer.), Farewell to Manzunar (1973)  Group 7
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1936) Group 2
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(1867) Group 2
Gish Jen (Chinese American) Typical American (1991) Group 7
Sarah Orne Jewett (19th C. European American) Country Doctor (1884) Group 4.
Rachel Kadish (European Jewish American) From a Sealed Woman (1998) Group 10
Suzanna Kaysen (European American) Girl Interrupted .  (1994) Group 6
Helen Keller, (European American), The Story of My Life, (1903) Group 6
Nora Okja Keller (20th C. Korean American) Comfort Woman (1997)  Group 6
Sohier Khashoggi (Saudi Arabian American) Mirage: A Novel (1996) Group 9
Jamaica Kincaid, (African Antiguan American) Annie John(1984) Group 2
Maxine Hong Kingston, (Chinese American), from The Woman Warrior, (1976)   Group 7
Bharti Kirchner (Indo-American) Shiva Dancing (1998) Group 8
Jhumpa Lahiri.  (20th C. Indo-American).  Interpreter of Maladies: Stories.  (1999)  Group 8
Mary Paik Lee, (Korean American) Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Women in America, (1990) Group 7
Ursula K. LeGuin, (European American) Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Group 4
Anna Livia (European Am. Lesbian) Bruised Fruit. (1999) Group 3
Audre Lorde (African American Lesbian) The Cancer Journals (1980) Group 6
Maria Elinor Lucas.  Forged Under the Sun/Forjada Bajo el Sol:  the Life of Maria Elena Lucas Group 11
Nancy Mairs, Waist High:  Life Among the Non-Disabled (1999)  Group 6
Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard. (20th C. Filipina American), When the Rainbow Goddess Wept Group 8
Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), A Chief and Her People (1993) Group 6
Demetria Martinez (Chicana American) Mother Tongue (1994) Group 5
M. Elaine Mar (Chinese American)  Paper Daughter: A Memoir.  (1999) Group7
Ann Moody. (Working Class African American) Coming of Age in Mississipi (1968)   Group 11
Mountain Wolf Woman. (Winnebago)  Mountain Wolf Woman (1961) ed. Nancy Oesteich in The Portable North American Indian Reader, ed. Frederick Turner, 1974 Group 1
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)  Group 2
Bharati Mukherjee (Indo-American)  Jasmine (1989) Group 8
Fae Myenne Ng (Chinese Working Class American) Bone (1993) Group 6
Frances Khirallah Noble (Syrian Lebanese American) The Situe Stories (2000) Group 9
Kathleen Norris (European American) The Virgin of Bennington (2001)  Group 4
Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestinian American), Habibi (1999) Group 9
Tillie Olsen Tell Me A Riddle (1962) Group 10
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1993) Group 10
Susan Powers (Sioux of North Dakota) The Grass Dancer (1995) Group 1
Gilda Radner.  (European Jewish American) It's Always Something (2000) Group 6
Santha Rama Rau: (Indo-American)  Gifts of Passage (1999) Group 8
Eleanor Roosevelt.  (Euro. American). Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1992) Group 12
Gwyn Hyman Rubic.  (Euro Amercian) Icy Sparks (Tourette Syndrome) (1998) Group 6
Esmeralda Santiago, (Puerto Rican) When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) Group 5
Julia Scully (European American)  Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood (1998); Group 4
Samia Serageldin (Egyptian American) The Cairo House (2000) Group 9
Ruth Knafo Setton (Moroccan Jewish American) The Road to Fez (2001) Group 10
Anita Sheen (European American) Things Unspoken.  1999; Group 4
Bapsy Sidhwa (Pakistani American) An American Brat (1994) Group 8
Ruth Sidransky. (Euopean American) In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World. (1990) Group 6
Elizabeth Stark (European American Lesbian) Shy Girl (1999)  Group 4
Suzanne Strempek Shea (Polish American)  Selling the Lite of Heaven (1994)  Group 10
Agnes Smedley.  Daughter of Earth (1929; 1987)   Group 11
Alma Hogan Snell.  (Crow) Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life.  ed. Beck Matthews (2000) Group 1.
Sara Suleri (Pakistani/Welsh American), Meatless Days, (1989)  Group 8
Amy Tan, (Chinese American) The Kitchen God's Wife (1992)  Group 12
Kathleen Tyau (Chinese Hawaiian American) MaKai (2000) Group 7
Ka Xiong (with Lillian Faderman)  I Begin My Life All Over (1999) Group 7
Margaret Walker. (African American), Jubilee (1966) Group 2
Anna Lee Walters (Otoe/Pawnee) Ghost Singer(1988) Group 1
Edith Wharton, (European American) The House of Mirth (1905) Group 4
Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig, (1859) Group 2
Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Japanese Hawaiian American) Blu's Hanging (1998) Group 7
Geling Yan (Chinese American) The Lost Daughter of Happiness (2001) Group 7
Wakato Yamauchi.  (Working Class Japanese American). Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir. ed. Garrett Hongo (1994) Group 11
Anzia Yesierska, Bread Givers ( 1925) Group 10 (1985); (1927); ed. Fran Leeper Buss. (1993) (1994)

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