Marilyn French was born in New York in 1929. She took a B.A. at Hofstra College (now University) in Long Island in 1951, and left the college to marry. In 1964 French earned her M.A. and between the years 1964 and 1968 she was an instructor at Hofstra University. After raising two children and divorce, she continued her studies at Harvard University, taught English at Hofstra and received her Ph.D. in 1972. |
The Women's Room
by Marilyn French.
The classic feminist novel that awakened both women and men speaks to everyone about the deep feelings at the heart of love and relationships. A biting social commentary of an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely.
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A Season in Hell: A Memoir
by Marilyn French.
Marilyn French, author of My Summer with George, The Women's Room, and Her Mother's Daughter, learns at the beginning of this memoir that she has esophageal cancer. (A smoker for 46 years, she had ignored friends and doctors who implored her to quit.) She is told that one survives metastasized esophageal cancer. A Season in Hell is French's personal story of her journey through the nightmares of aggressive cancer treatment, seizures, a two-week coma, kindhearted nurses, and uncompassionate doctors.
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War Against Women
by Marilyn French.
French takes on global sexism from the fall of the ancient goddess-worshiping societies to routine modern-day oppression of women in every nation of the world--quite a large bite to chew, and not always thoroughly masticated. ``Humans are the only species in which one sex consistently preys upon the other,'' French proclaims in this determined attempt to sound an alarm to women around the world.
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