alix kates shulman

At twenty, Alix Kates Shulman left her native Cleveland, Ohio, for New York's Greenwich Village, seeking a freer place to spend the 1950s. In the following decades she became a political activist, feminist, and award-winning writer.

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Her debut novel, the million-copy bestseller Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, was called by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement." Her controversial 1969 essay, "A Marriage Agreement," continues to be discussed and attacked to this day.

She has written twelve books, including four novels, three memoirs, three books for children, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, and numerous short stories and essays. Her works have been translated into twelve languages.

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