page_title: Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
section_title: Later twentieth-century literature
hierarchical_section_title: Norton Anthology of Literature by Women / Included authors (third edition) / Later twentieth-century literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Maya Angelou reciting her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
context_page_description: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, published by W. W. Norton & Company, is one of the Norton Anthology series for use in English literary studies. It is edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. This volume is dedicated to exploring the history of English-speaking women's involvement in the literary world, the traditions of which women writers have been a part, and the experiences women share, with the second and third edition giving more emphasis to how those experiences are shaped by differing cultural, racial, religious, socioeconomical, and sexual backgrounds. Norton released the third edition of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women in February 2007, expanding the new edition into a two-volume set along with a companion reader. Additional material added sixty-one additional authors to the anthology, bringing the total to 219. The additional material expanded on the interest in current women's literature scholarship in the effects of diverse backgrounds on women's experiences.
context_section_description: Stevie Smith (1902–1972)
  Anaïs Nin (1903–1977)
  Dilys Laing (1906–1960)
  Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996)
  Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
  Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
  Mary Lavin (1912–1989)
  Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
  May Sarton (1912–1995)
  Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
  May Swenson (1913-1989)
  Tillie Olsen (1912–2007)
  James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon) (1915-1987)
  Ruth Stone (1915–2011)
  Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
  Judith Wright (1915-2000)
  P. K. Page (1916-2010)
  Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
  Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
  Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
  Louise Bennett (1919-2006)
  Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
  Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (1920-1993)
  Gwen Harwood (1920-1995)
  Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-2011)
  Mavis Gallant (1922-2014)
  Grace Paley (1922–2007)
  Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
  Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014)
  Shirley Kaufman (1923-2016)
  Patricia Beer (1919–1999)
  Janet Frame (1924-2004)
  Flannery O'Conner (1925–1964)
  Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014)
  Maxine W. Kumin (1925-2014)
  Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
  Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
  Cynthia Ozick (born 1928)
  U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009)
  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
  Paule Marshall (born 1929)
  Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)
  Toni Morrison (born 1931)
  Alice Munro (born 1931)
  Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
  Edna O'Brien (born 1932)
  Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
  Fleur Adcock (born 1934)
  Diane di Prima (born 1934)
  June Jordan (1936-2002)
  A. S. Byatt (born 1936)
  Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
  Anita Desai (born 1937)
  Caryl Churchill (born 1938)
  Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
  Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
  Angela Carter (1940–1992)
  Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940)
  Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940)
  Lyn Hejinian (born 1941)
  Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004)
  Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1942)
  Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)
  Sharon Olds (born 1942)
  Louise Glück (born 1943)
  Eavan Boland (born 1944)
  Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)
  Alice Walker (born 1944)
  Lynn Freed (born 1945)
  Octavia Butler (1947-2006)
  Lorna Goodison (born 1947)
  Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
  Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949)
  Julia Alvarez (born 1950)
  Anne Carson (born 1950)
  Carolyn Forché (born 1950)
  Medbh McGuckian (born 1950)
  Grace Nichols (born 1950)
  Jorie Graham (born 1951)
  Joy Harjo (born 1951)
  Rita Dove (born 1952)
  Luci Tapahonso (born 1953)
  Kim Addonizio (born 1954)
  Sandra Cisneros (born 1954)
  Helena María Viramontes (born 1954)
  Marilyn Chin (born 1955)
  Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955)
  Paula Meehan (born 1955)
  Rebecca Brown (born 1956)
  Gish Jen (born 1956)
  Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
  Margaret Edson (born 1961)
  Jackie Kay (born 1961)
  Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967)
caption: Maya Angelou reciting her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration
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