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Born in March 31, 1936 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BOOKS
  • Barr, Marlene, editor, Future Females: A Critical Anthology, Bowling Green State University Popular Press (Bowling Green, OH), 1981.
  • Barr, Marleen S., Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1993.
  • American Women Writers, second edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.
  • Bartkowski, Frances, Feminist Utopias, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1989.
  • Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies, edited by Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick, University of Kentucky Press (Lexington, KY), 1985.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 3, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 18, 1981, Volume 27, 1984, Volume 62, 1991.
  • Contemporary Novelists, 6th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Contemporary Poets, 6th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Contemporary Women Poets, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998.
  • Delany, Sheila, Writing Woman: Woman Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern, Schocken (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI) Volume 120: American Poets since World War II, Third Series, 1992, Volume 227: American Novelists since World War II, Sixth Series, 2000.
  • Doherty, Pat, Marge Piercy: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1997.
  • Ferguson, Mary Anne, Images of Women in Literature, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1986.
  • Freedman, Diane P, An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1992.
  • Future Females: A Critical Anthology, edited by Marlene Barr, Bowling Green State University Popular Press (Bowling Green, OH), 1981.
  • Hicks, Jack, In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fiction of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1981.
  • Hoegland, Lisa Marie, Feminism and Its Fiction, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1998.
  • The Intersectional of Science Fiction and Philosophy, edited by Robert E. Myers, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1983.
  • Jackson, Richard, Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 1983.
  • Keulen, Margaret, Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Kimball, Gayle, editor, Women's Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies, Scarecrow (Lanham, MD), 1981.
  • Kremer, Lillian S., Women's Holocaust Writing, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1999.
  • Michael, Magali Cornier, Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1996.
  • Modern American Literature, Volume 3, 5th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • Pearlman, Mickey, and Katherine Usher Henderson, Inter/View: Talks with America's Writing Women, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1990.
  • Piercy, Marge, Sleeping With Cats: A Memoir, Morrow (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Representations of Motherhood, edited by Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1994.
  • Rigney, Barbara Hill, Lilith's Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 1982.
  • Rosindky, Natalie, Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction, UMI Research (Ann Arbor, MI), 1984.
  • Shands, Kerstin W, The Repair of the World: The Novels of Marge Piercy, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994.
  • St. James Guide to Jewish Writers Worldwide, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • St. James Guide to Science-Fiction Writers, 4th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Thielman, Pia, Marge Piercy's Women: Visions Capture and Subdued, R.G. Fischer (Frankfurt, Germany), 1986.
  • Walker, Sue, and Eugenie Hamner, editors, Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy, Negative Capability Press (Mobile, AL), 1991.
PERIODICALS
  • America, December 29, 1973.
  • American Book Review, June-July, 1992, Marleen S. Barr, review of He, She & It.
  • Atlantic, August, 1971; September, 1973.
  • Belles Lettres, spring, 1992, p. 25.
  • Bloomsbury Review, January, 1999, review of Storm Tide, p. 16.
  • Booklist, March 15, 1992, p. 1332; March 15, 1998, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 1209; April 15, 1998, review of Storm Tide, p. 1357; February 1, 1999, Donna Seaman and Jack Helbig, review of The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme and Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy, p. 959; July, 1999, Donna Seaman, review of Three Women, p. 1895; September 15, 1999, Ray Olson, review of Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, p. 215; February 1, 2000, Donna Seaman, review of Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, p. 1004; June 1, 2001, David Pitt, review of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and the Personal Narrative, p. 1825; November 15, 2001, Brad Hooper, review of Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir, p. 522; September 1, 2005, Donna Seaman, review of Sex Wars, p. 7; January 1, 2007, George Cohen, review of Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own, p. 28.
  • Boston Globe, October 17, 1991, Alison Bass, review of He, She & It.
  • Boston Herald, June 14, 1998, Judith Wynn, "Cape Romance Storm Tide Ought to Make Waves on the Beach," p. O75.
  • Chicago Sun Times, March 20, 1994, Wendy Smith, review of The Longings of Women.
  • Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1984; April 7, 1985; March 27, 1988.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, January 13, 1980; June 8, 1980; February 14, 1982; April 24, 1983; February 26, 1984.
  • City Limits, July 2-9, 1992, David V. Barrett, review of Body of Glass.
  • Detroit Free Press, February 28, 1982; May 1, 1994, Susan Hall-Balduf, review of The Longings of Women.
  • Detroit News, February 24, 1980; March 21, 1982; March 4, 1984.
  • Guardian (London, England), January 6, 2000, Marge Piercy, "Look Both Ways," p. 10.
  • Herizons, January 1, 2007, Diana Gault, review of Sex Wars, p. 35.
  • Houston Chronicle, January 20, 2002, Sharon Gibson, "How Marge Piercy Broke Tough Childhood Mold," p. 21.
  • Independent, May 19, 1992, Rosemary Bailey, review of Body of Glass.
  • Journal of Cooperative Living, spring, 1994, Lisa Davis, "Marge Piercy on Cooperative Living," pp. 57-58.
  • Journal of Narrative Technique, spring, 1993, Elaine Orr, "Mothering as Good Fiction: Instances from Marge Piercy's Women on the Edge of Time," pp. 61-79.
  • Judaism, spring, 2001, Steven Schneider, "Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Poetry," p. 199.
  • Kenyon Review, spring, 1998, John Rodden, "A Harsh Day's Light: An Interview with Marge Piercy," p. 132.
  • Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1998, review of Storm Tide, p. 520; August 1, 1999, review of Three Women, p. 1160; November 1, 2001, review of Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir, p. 1538; September 15, 2005, review of Sex Wars, p. 998.
  • Library Journal, February 15, 1992, p. 171; January, 1994, p. 164; February 1, 1997, Judy Clarence, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 84; May 15, 1998, Andrea Lee Shuey, review of Storm Tide, p. 117; February 1, 1999, Ellen Kaufman, review of Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy, p. 93; June 1, 1999, Judy Clarence, review of The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, p. 120; July, 1999, Francine Fialkoff, review of Three Women, p. 135; July, 2001, Lisa Cihlar, review of So You Want to Write: How to Master the Craft of Fiction and the Personal Narrative, p. 103; January, 2002, Carolyn Craft, review of Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir, p. 104; October 15, 2005, Marika Zemke, review of Sex Wars: A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period, p. 48.
  • Lilith, summer, 1999, Karen Prager Kramer, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?
  • Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1988; December 26, 1991, Devon Jersild, review of He, She & It; October 14, 1996, Michael Harris, review of City of Darkness, City of Light; June 24, 1998, Thomas Curwen, review of Storm Tide. Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 3, 1994, p. 5; May 8, 1999, Zachary Karabell, review of The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, p. 2; October 3, 1999, review of Three Women, p. 11.
  • Modern Poetry Studies, Number 3, 1977.
  • Ms. July, 1978; January, 1980; June, 1982; March, 1984; October-November, 1999, Laura Ciolkowski, review of Three Women, p. 93.
  • Nation, December 7, 1970; November 30, 1974; December 4, 1976; March 6, 1982, pp. 280-82.
  • New Leader, July 13, 1987, Hope Hale Davis, review of Gone to Soldiers, p. 19.
  • New Republic, December 12, 1970; October 27, 1973; February 9, 1980.
  • New Statesman, May 18, 1979.
  • Newsweek, January 24, 1994, review of The Longings of Women.
  • New York Daily News, June 17, 1995, Bill Bell, review of The Longings of Women.
  • New Yorker, April 10, 1971; February 13, 1978; February 22, 1982.
  • New York Times, October 21, 1969; October 23, 1970; January 19, 1978; January 15, 1980; February 6, 1982; February 2, 1984.
  • New York Times Book Review, November 9, 1969; August 12, 1973; January 22, 1978; November 26, 1978; February 24, 1980; February 7, 1982, pp. 6-7, 30-31; August 8, 1982; February 5, 1984; December 22, 1991, p. 22; March 20, 1994, Patricia Volk, review ofThe Longings of Women, p. 23; August 23, 1998, Ruth Goughlin, review of Storm Tide, p. 16; October 31, 1999, Betsy Groban, review of Three Women, p. 25; December 26, 1999, review ofStorm Tide, p. 20; January 1, 2006, "Fiction Chronicle," p. 17.
  • People, April 4, 1994, p. 29.
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, March 29, 2007, "Setting a Sensible Seder," .
  • Platte Valley Review, winter, 1990, Elizabeth G. Peck, "More than Ideal: Size and Weight Obsessions in Literary Works by Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood and André Dubus."
  • Poetry, March, 1971; April, 1994, p. 39; January, 1998, John Taylor, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 221.
  • Prairie Schooner, fall, 1971; winter, 2006, Carmel L. Morse, review of Sex Wars: A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period.
  • Progressive, January, 2001, Michelle Gerise Godwin, "Marge Piercy" (interview), p. 27.
  • Publishers Weekly, January 18, 1980; August 23, 1991, review of He, She & It, p. 42; March 23, 1992, review of Mars and Her Children, p. 65; December 13, 1993, review of The Longings of Women, p. 61; January 23, 1995, review of The Book of Eros: Arts and Letters from Yellow Silk, p. 62; July 24, 1995, Paul Nathan, "Looking Abroad," p. 15; September 23, 1996, review of City of Darkness, City of Light, p. 54; January 27, 1997, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 94; April 27, 1998, review of Storm Tide, p. 42; February 22, 1999, review of Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy, p. 91; August 16, 1999, review of Three Women, p. 57; August 6, 2001, "Mysteries of Writing," p. 81; December 10, 2001, review of Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir, p. 60; September 5, 2005, review of Sex Wars, p. 32; August 28, 2006, review of The Crooked Inheritance, p. 32; November 27, 2006, review of Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own, p. 46.
  • Reference & User Services Quarterly, spring, 1998, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 275.
  • Saturday Review, March 1, 1980, February, 1982.
  • St. Louis Post, October 13, 1991, Gail Boyer, review of He, She and It.
  • Tikkun, September, 1999, review of The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, p. 81.
  • Times Literary Supplement, March 7, 1980; January 23, 1981; July 23, 1982; June 15, 1984; May 29, 1992, p. 21.
  • Toronto Star, June 25, 1994, Helen Heller, review ofThe Longings of Women.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), April 17, 1994, p. 3.
  • U.S. News & World Report, May 18, 1987, Alvin P. Sanoff, "A Woman Writer Treads on Male Turf," p. 74.
  • Village Voice, February 18, 1980; March 30, 1982.
  • Washington Post, December 31, 2001, Colman McCarthy, "A Woman in Touch with Her Felines," p. C03.
  • Washington Post Book World, January 27, 1980; February 7, 1982; May 30, 1982; February 19, 1984; March 27, 1994, p. 5.
  • Washington Times, July 19, 1998, Merle Rubin, review of Storm Tide.
  • Women's Review of Books, September 1, 2006, "A Lot of Everything," p. 6.
  • World Literature Today, autumn, 1997, Lara Merlin, review of What Are Big Girls Made Of?, p. 792.
ONLINE
  • Leapfrog Press Web site, http://www.leapfrogpress.com/ (June 24, 2007), description of >Early Grrrl: The Early Poems of Marge Piercy,.
  • LitLinks, http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/ (June 24, 2007).
  • Marge Piercy Home Page, http://www.archer-books.com/Piercy (June 24, 2007).
  • New York State Writers Institute Web site, http://www.albany.edu/ (June 24, 2007), author bio.*