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  • Alix Kates Shulman
  • Charlotte Templin Interviewer

An Interview with Alix Kates Shulman

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Shulman: I didn not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days -- this was the early fifties -- to be a philosopher, so I gave that up. I didn't know what I was going to do, but then when I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I has something urgent to say.

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    Alix Kates Shulman [View Author]
    Alix Kates Shulman has published twelve books, including four novels, three children's books, a biography of Emma Goldman and two edited collections of Goldman's essays. Her novel Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen is widely recognized as he first important novel to emerge from the women's liberation movement. In recent years she has earned acclaim with two memoirs: Drinking the Rain and A Good Enough Daughter.
    Charlotte Templin Interviewer [View Author]

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