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~~~~~ WORK IN PROGRSS! ~~~~~ Female penmanship is frequently associated with the move towards women's socio-political empowerment; but from Sappho, Sheherazade and medieval Europe's great mystics and poets, like Hildegard of Bingen and Marie de France, to Christine de Pizan (the first woman to earn her living by her pen), the 19th century pioneers on whose works we still draw today, the "queens of crime," and modern best-selling novelists and outspoken proponents of Women's Lib like Isabel Allende, Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, women have always found ways to play a vocal (and vital) role in society, whatever limitations they had to overcome. Here's a glimpse at some of the "fair sex"'s contributions to the world's literary heritage: Joyce Carol Oates National Book Award 1970 (Fiction): Them (Wonderland Quartet)  O. Henry Awards 1964, 1969, 1972, 1983, 1989 (Second Prize): "Stigmata," "Accomplished Desires," "Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!," "My Warsawa," "House Hunting" O. Henry Awards 1967, 1973 (First Prize): "In the Region of Ice," "The Dead" O. Henry Awards 1970, 1986 (Special Award, Continuing Achievement): "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again," "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters," "Master Race" Edna O'Brien Kingsley Amis Award (Fiction) 1962: The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue (Plume) L.A. Times Book Prize 1990 (Fiction): "Lantern Slides" European Prize for Literature 1995 (lifetime achievement) Flannery O'Connor National Book Award 1972 (Fiction): "Complete Short Stories" O. Henry Awards 1955 (Second Prize): "A Circle in the Fire" O. Henry Awards 1957, 1963, 1965 (First Prize): "Greenleaf," "Everything that Rises Must Converge," "Revelation" Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) Anna Maria Ortese Premio Strega 1967: "Poveri e Semplici" Premio Viareggio 1953: "Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli" Premio Fiuggi 1986: The Iguana Sara Paretsky CWA Diamond Dagger 2002 (lifetime achievement) CWA Gold Dagger 2004: Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski) CWA Silver Dagger 1988: "Toxic Shock" (aka "Blood Shot") Anthony Award 1992 (Anthology): "A Woman's Eye" (editor) Dorothy Parker O. Henry Awards 1929 (First Prize): "Big Blonde" The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) Charlotte Perkins Gilman National Women's Hall of Fame 1994 Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Ellis Peters MBE 1944 OBE 1994 CWA Diamond Dagger 1993 (lifetime achievement) CWA Silver Dagger 1980: Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael Edgar Award 1963: "Death and the Joyful Woman" Czechoslovak Society for International Relations Gold Medal 1968 Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) Sylvia Plath Pulitzer Prize 1982 (Poetry): The Collected Poems Katherine Anne Porter Pulitzer Prize 1966 (Fiction), National Book Award 1966 (Fiction): "Collected Stories" O. Henry Awards 1962 (First Prize): "Holiday" American Academy of Arts and Sciences Emerson Thoreau Medal 1962 Ship of Fools Annie Proulx Pulitzer Prize 1994 (Fiction), National Book Award 1993 (Fiction), Irish Times International Fiction Prize 1993: The Shipping News : A Novel Pen Faulkner Award 1993: "Postcards" Anna Quindlen Black and Blue: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin Classics) Ayn Rand The Fountainhead Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine Dame of the British Empire 1997 (Life Peerage: Baroness of Babergh) CWA Diamond Dagger 1991 (lifetime achievement) CWA Gold Daggers 1976, 1986: "A Demon in My View," "Live Flesh" (as Ruth Rendell); ditto 1987, 1991 (Fiction): "A Fatal Inversion," "King Solomon's Carpet" (as Barbara Vine) CWA Silver Dagger 1984 (Fiction): "The Tree of Hands" Edgar Award 1997 (Grand Master) Edgar Award 1987: A Dark-Adapted Eye (Plume) Edgar Awards 1975, 1984 (Best Short Story): "The Fallen Curtain," "The New Girlfriend" Anne Rice Complete Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the body Thief) Mary Robinson L.A. Times Book Prize 2001 (Fiction): "Why Did I Ever" Mary Robinson: Selected Poems (Broadview Literary Texts) Nelly Sachs Nobel Prize (Literature) 1966 German Book Trade Peace Prize 1965 Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer) (v. 1) Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Sappho Sappho - Poems, A New Version Dorothy L. Sayers CWA Rusty Dagger 1996: "The Nine Taylors" (1930) Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) Anna Seghers Georg-Büchner-Preis 1947 The Seventh Cross (Verba Mundi) Madame de Sévigné Selected Letters (Penguin Classics) Anne Sexton Pulitzer Prize 1967 (Poetry): "Live or Die" The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton Sheherazade The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) Mary Shelley Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) Susan Sontag National Book Award 2000 (Fiction): In America: A Novel Jerusalem Prize 2001 German Book Trade Peace Prize 2003 Premio Príncipe de Asturias 2003 Muriel Spark Dame of the British Empire 1993 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1978 The Novels of Muriel Spark: Volume 1 Madame de Staël Ten Years of Exile Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein: Writings, 1903 to 1932, Vol. 1 (Library of America) Jan Struther Mrs. Miniver Wislawa Szymborska Nobel Prize (Literature) 1996 View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Amy Tan Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal (Fiction) 1990: The Joy Luck Club Sheri Tepper The True Game Sojourner Truth National Women's Hall of Fame 1981 Narrative of Sojourner Truth Anne Tyler Pulitzer Prize 1989 (Fiction): Breathing Lessons Sigrid Undset Nobel Prize (Literature) 1928 Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Rahel Varnhagen Writing on the wall: Letters of Rahel Varnhagen Alice Walker Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) and National Book Award 1983 (Fiction/Hardcover): The Color Purple O. Henry Awards 1986 (First Prize): "Kindred Spirits" Wendy Wasserstein Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize 1989 (Drama): "The Heidi Chronicles" The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic Eudora Welty Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1972 Pulitzer Prize 1973 (Fiction): "The Optimist's Daughter" National Book Award 1983 (Fiction/Paperback): "Collected Stories" O. Henry Awards 1941, 1951 (Second Prize): "A Worn Path," "The Burning" O. Henry Awards 1942, 1943, 1968 (First Prize): "The Wide Net," "Livvie is Back," "The Demonstrators" National Medal of Arts 1986 Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980 National Women's Hall of Fame 2000 French Legion of Honor 1996 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres 1987 Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America, 102) Debbie Lee Wesselmann Trutor and the Balloonist Rebecca West The Return of the Soldier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Edith Wharton Pulitzer Prize 1921 (Novel): "The Age of Innocence" Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1926 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal 1929 National Women's Hall of Fame 1996 French Legion of Honor 1915 Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (Library of America) Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit Christa Wolf Georg-Büchner-Preis 1980 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 1987: "Störfall" ("Accident") Austrian Prize for European Literature 1984 What Remains and Other Stories Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian
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