alix kates shulman

Selected Works

Fiction
Ménage
Alix's new novel, forthcoming in May 2012 from Other Press
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
"A devastating expose of the all-American girl plight." Boston Globe
Burning Questions
"A perfectly realized novel about feminism." Rita Mae Brown
On the Stroll
"Insightful and compassionate." Publishers Weekly
In Every Woman's Life
"Fierce, funny, touching." NY Times Book Review
Non-Fiction
A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays
First ever collection of Alix's most controversial essays, from the 1970s till now, forthcoming in spring 2012.
Red Emma Speaks: an Emma Goldman Reader
Emma Goldman's writings and speeches compiled and edited by Alix Kates Shulman
To the Barricades: The Anarchist Life of Emma Goldman
Biography of Emma Goldman, named A New York Times Notable Book
"A Marriage Disagreement"
Revisits controversial proposal to share childcare and housework
Memoirs
To Love What Is
"A haunting meditation on a love more enduring than the body or mind." Boston Globe
A Good Enough Daughter
"Refreshingly upbeat, infused with insight, affection, and respect." NY Times Book Review
Drinking the Rain
"A ten year voyage of discovery [that] could even, if we were willing, change our lives." San Francisco Chronicle
For Children
Bosley on the Number Line
Fantasy adventure story with a mathematical plot
Awake or Asleep
Picture book exploring the borderline between dream and reality
Finders Keepers
A hidden picture book

"The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society." --The New York Times


photo c by Marion Ettlinger

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, teacher, and award-winning writer.

(For details click on Biography.)

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. Her most recent book is the memoir TO LOVE WHAT IS: A MARRIAGE TRANSFORMED.

She has written fourteen books, including five novels, three memoirs, three books for children, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, an essay collection, and numerous short stories and essays. Her books have been published in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Swedish translations.

Two new books will be published in Spring 2012:
MÉNAGE, a novel about a wealthy married couple who invite a celebrated emigre writer to move in with them in hopes of spicing up their lives.
A MARRIAGE AGREEMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS, a collection.

(For details click on Writings.)