| Name |
Project |
| Carol Ascher |
Starting a novel |
| Deirdre Bair |
“Late Divorce” (men and women who have divorced after
long marriages) |
| Trudy Balch |
Harriet de Onis, translator and critic of Latin American
literature; Gabriela Brimmer, Mexican/Jewish disability rights activist |
| Evelyn Barish |
Paul de Man in His Times |
| Louise
Bernikow |
Brideship, a historical fiction based on real events in London
& the Virginia Colony, mid 17th century |
| Sallie
Bingham |
Millicent Rogers: early 20th-century Standard Oil heir, artist,
and collector |
| Rachel Brownstein |
Jane Austen |
| Elizabeth Brunazzi |
Andree Viollis, 20th-century French international
correspondent |
| Betty Boyd
Caroli |
Previous biography: The Roosevelt Women: A Protrait in Five
Generations. Currently: Confederate women during the American Civil
War |
| Mary Ann
Caws |
Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting, Writing,
Resisting |
| Kathy Chamberlain |
Jane Welsh Carlyle, Victorian letter writer |
| Norah Chase |
Elba Chase Nelson, head of the Communist Party of New Hampshire,
1934-1961 |
| Bell Gale Chevigny |
The Scandal of My Mother's Happiness and Other Riddles (family
narrative); prison writing (see
Doing Time: 25 Years of Pen
Prison Writing) |
| Barbara Flug Colin |
Memoir |
| Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume III |
| Kathryn Tripp Feldman |
Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian novelist and biographer; editing
family Civil War letters |
| Penelope Franklin |
Memoir; Carrington and her World; the letters of Laurie Colwin.
|
| Johanna
Garfield |
Essays on life in New York City |
| Sherry Gorelick |
“On the Road to Peace”: Collective biography of
North-American Jewish Feminists & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Kathryn Hearst |
Phoebe Hearst, 19th-century philanthropist & reformer |
| Grace Hechinger |
Alva Vanderbilt:, socialite and suffragist; also memoir |
| Dorothy O. Helly |
Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard: novelist; journalist for The
Times (London), 1890-1900; imperialist |
| Susan Hertog |
A dual portrait of Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West |
| Barbara Horn |
Dorothy Bryant, contemporary American novelist and
playwright. |
| Gail Hornstein |
Previous biography: To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the
World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Currently: Survivor narratives
of madness |
| Polly Howells |
Memoir |
| Anne Humpherys |
Coordinator, Women's Studies Certificate Program; Director Center
for the Study of Women & Society |
| Diane Jacobs |
Abigail Adams & her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw
Peabody. |
| Ellen Jacobs* |
life of Barbara Wootton, Labor Member of Parliament |
| Marjorie G. Jones |
Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition, to be published
by Ibis Press in June 2008 |
| Carla Kaplan |
"Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance"
-- a group biography of the 1920's |
| Nancy Kline |
Previous biography: Elizabeth Blackwell: A Doctor's
Triumph. Currently: “Other Geographies,” essay collection, and
“Strings,” a novel |
| Jane
Lancaster |
Previous biography: Making Time-Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A
Life Beyond Cheaper By the Dozen. Currently: Eliza Jumel, 19th-century New
Yorker |
| Patricia
Laurence |
Previous biography: Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury,
Modernism, and China. Currently: Elizabeth Bowen |
| Gail Levin* |
Previous biography: Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography,
including his wife Josephine Nivison Hopper. Currently: Judy Chicago |
| Laura Tyson
Li |
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Atlantic Monthly Press 2006) |
| Harriet Luria |
Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen: 20th-century American writers |
| Jane Maher |
Previous biography: Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and
Work. Currently: James Maguire, businessman and philanthropist |
| Barbara F. McManus |
Grace Harriet Macurdy, pioneering female classicist and
biographer of ancient women |
| Honor
Moore |
Memoir |
| Dona
Munker |
Previous biography:
Daughter of
Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem through the
Islamic Revolution. Currently:
Sara Bard
Field, suffragist, poet, and “free-lover.” Website,
On Writing Biography and
Biographical Nonfiction, has an online journal and a newsletter,
“Imagining a Life.” |
| Jill Norgren |
Previous biography: Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President (2007).
Current project: a children's biography of Belva Lockwood; also a biography of
Miriam (Mrs. Frank) Leslie. |
| Victoria C. Olsen |
Previous biography: From Life : Julia Margaret Cameron and
Victorian Photography,. Currently: “Word Blind,” young adult
historical novel |
| Sreca Perunovic |
A memoir about my two lives: the first one lived in the former
Yugoslavia, and the second my American life |
| Carla L. Peterson |
19th-century African-American Social/Cultural life through the
lens of my father's family, especially Cornelia Guignon |
| Therese Diamand Rosinsky |
Marie Bashkirtseff |
| Paula Rothenberg |
Memoir |
| Abby Santamaria |
Joy Davidman, communist poet who married C.S. Lewis |
| Stacy Schiff |
|
| Dee
Shapiro |
Fictional autobiography/essay on artists books, paintings, and
exhibitions - Cuba |
| Alix Kates
Shulman |
Previous memoir: A Good Enough Daughter. Currently: a
novel |
| Claire Morris Stern |
Helen Taylor, daughter of Harriet Taylor Mill, stepdaughter of
John Stuart Mill, radical Victorian feminist |
| Sydney Ladensohn Stern |
Stories of New York Worlds |
| Nancy
Rubin Stuart |
Previous biography:
The
Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox. Currently: The Muse of the Revolution: The
Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation.
Professional writing services for couples at
yourlovestory.net and
yourlovestory.us. |
| Amy Swerdlow |
The Personal Was Always Political, a memoir about growing
up in the Bronx |
| Patricia Valenti |
Prevous biography: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1,
1809-1847. Currently working on Volume 2. |
| Frances Vieta |
Recovering Stolen Art: A Memoir |
| Lise Vogel |
Memoir |
| Judith M. Walter |
Virginia Guildersleeve & Caroline Spurgeon, early
20th-century educators |
| Suzanne Wasserman |
Previous documentary film: Thunder in Guyana, on Janet
Rosenberg Jagan. Currently: Rebecca Lepkoff, Photo League photographer |
| Brenda Wineapple |
Previous biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Life.
Currently: a book about Emily Dickinson |
| Donez
Xiques |
Margaret
Laurence: The Making of a Writer (2005) |
| Jean Fagan Yellin |
Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2004) |
| Michele Zackheim |
Previous biography: Violette's Embrace, a fictional
biography of Violette Leduc. Currently: “Broken Colors: A Portrait,”
a novel |
