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Born August 27, 1933 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died November 5, 2017 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “My Mother/My Self: The Daughter’s Search for Identity” • “My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies”
Subjects Of Study psychology • personal identity
Role In women’s rights movement
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Celebrated, then controversial
Naomi Wolf
American author
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Phil McGraw
American psychologist and television personality
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Camille Paglia
American academic
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Kate Millett
American feminist, author, and artist
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Anne Roiphe
American feminist and author
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Annette Kolodny
American literary critic
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George Weinberg
American psychotherapist
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Jonathan Safran Foer
American author
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Norman Maclean
American author and teacher
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Ted Sorensen
American lawyer and presidential speechwriter
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John Martin
American dance critic
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Esther Forbes
American author
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Quentin Reynolds
American journalist and writer
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Jim Backus
American actor
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Anna Bartlett Warner
American writer
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Marchette Chute
American author
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Tillie Olsen
American author
Father James Martin
James Martin
American Roman Catholic priest and author