Description
America has an array of women writers who have made history--and many of them lived, died and were buried in Virginia.(/b>
Gothic novelists, writers of Westerns and African American poets, these writers include a Pulitzer Prize winner, the first woman writer to be named Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the first woman to top the best-seller lists in the twentieth century. Mary Roberts Rinehart was a bestselling mystery author often called the American Agatha Christie. Anne Spencer was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. V. C. Andrews was so popular that when she died a court ruled that her name was taxable, and the poetry of Susan Archer Talley Weiss received praise from Edgar Allan Poe.
Professor and cemetery history enthusiast Sharon Pajka has written a guide to their accomplishments in life and to their final resting places.
Author: Sharon Pajka
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/15/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.78h x 5.11w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781467150668
ISBN10: 1467150665
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Women