It is hard to believe that this piece is still necessary. We long for the day when we don’t have to single out authors – or anyone of any walk of life, for that matter – for their gender, but here we are again. Last weekend, author and New Journalism father Gay Talese was asked to name women writers who had inspired him at a Boston University event, to which he answered: “None.”
He reportedly went on to say that “educated women don’t want to hang out with anti-social people,” according to what journalist Amy Littlefield, who was in the audience, told the Washington Post.Undoubtedly, the hashtag women gaytaleses houldread started bubbling on Twitter, and plenty of suggestions were made – here is a tiny selection from authors:We have celebrated female authors on the Books site before, but we contacted some of our readers and asked them to tell us which female writers shaped their lives.
Here are 10 of the most mentioned authors, in no particular order, and what our readers had to say about them:Undoubtedly, the hashtag #womengaytaleseshouldread started bubbling on Twitter, and plenty of suggestions were made – here is a tiny selection from authors:We have celebrated female authors on the Books site before,
but we contacted some of our readers and asked them to tell us which female writers shaped their lives. Here are 10 of the most mentioned authors, in no particular order, and what our readers had to say about them:
