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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.

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"A Story Larger than My Own is an essential book, for women writers, for all writers, for readers, for people with mothers, for people who remember their mothers." (Cris Mazza, author of Something Wrong with Her)"

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    A Paperback / softback by Janet Burroway

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/02/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226014104, 978-0226014104
      ISBN10: 022601410X
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      Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.

      Trade Review
      "A Story Larger than My Own is an essential book, for women writers, for all writers, for readers, for people with mothers, for people who remember their mothers." (Cris Mazza, author of Something Wrong with Her)"

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