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TheOldMole Oct 30 2008 03:57 PM

For a one-day course I'm teaching in January, for which the catalog is being written right now and they want something from me instantaneously -- what's a good collection of short stories by a woman writer who uses the first person more often than not, and whose stories have at least some autobiographical basis?

themetfairy Oct 30 2008 05:20 PM

Check out these writers - Wendy Wasserstein Gloria Steinem Erma Bomback Ellen Goodman

cooby Oct 30 2008 05:52 PM

Shirley Jackson

Willets Point Oct 30 2008 06:14 PM

Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" Eudora Welty "The Wide Net And Other Stories" Alice Walker "In Love & Trouble"

Edgy DC Oct 30 2008 06:52 PM

Katherine Anne Porter. Eleanor Lipman is contemporary and funny; Into Love and Out Again. Lynn Sharon Schwartz: Referred Pain and Other Stories. http://www.amazon.com/Referred-Pain-Lynn-Sharon-Schwartz/dp/158243302X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225414482&sr=1-3