By Nava Atlas | On May 8, 2025 | Updated August 16, 2025 | Comments (0)
If you love learning about fascinating women of the past, but aren’t inclined to read full-scale biographies that take you from the second they were born (or earlier) to the minute they died, another fantastic route into their lives is via novelizations, also known as biofiction.
This type of novel usually focuses on a particularly interesting portion of a fascinating real-life person’s journey. This seems to be a growing genre, and when done well, as in the small sampling following, is entertaining as well as illuminating.
To create these novelizations successfully requires a delicate balance involving deep research and creative license. Here’s a small sampling. Read More→
By Julie Parks | On May 4, 2025 | Updated June 24, 2025 | Comments (0)
Literary gift boxes are a fun and thoughtful way to celebrate great books and authors. These boxes are perfect for book lovers who enjoy reading and want something special. These are great for birthdays, holidays, or book clubs.
You can fill these boxes with items inspired by famous women writers. With the right packaging, items, and design, you can create a gift box that reflects the writer’s theme.
Let’s explore some unique ideas to create a gift box that every book lover will appreciate and cherish. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On April 29, 2025 | Comments (0)
There’s a lot of hoopla around 2025 being the centenary of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. It’s the quintessential novel of what’s come to be known as the Jazz Age.
But it’s not the only centenary worth celebrating in 2025. There was some great 1925 fiction that came from the pens (and typewriters of women writers, including Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Willa Cather, Anita Loos, Anzia Yezierska, and more.
Poor Scott Fitzgerald didn’t live long enough to see the lasting legacy of his work (he was gone by 1940, at the age of 44). There’s a LOT (this is the listing on Google News alone) of news and editorializing about Gatsby. It’s kind of cool that a book is getting so much attention in the midst of all the horrors we’re living through — kind of a testament to the power of literature. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On April 27, 2025 | Updated May 17, 2025 | Comments (0)
Edna St. Vincent Millay was just nineteen when she began to compose “Renascence” some time toward the end of 1911. Written at a time of uncertainty about her future, it was a poem about herself, yet it dealt with the common human struggle to find hope when everything seems hopeless.
She had been an outstanding student in her tiny Maine high school, and a star contributor to the popular children’s publication St. Nicholas Magazine. Once she had passed the age limit (eighteen) for submissions, she was left without an outlet for her poetry.
Fighting despair, she grasped that no one could save her but herself. “I must exert every atom of my will and lift myself body and soul — above my situation and my surroundings …” Read More→
By Alex J. Coyne | On March 6, 2025 | Updated July 8, 2025 | Comments (0)
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American author, artist, and socialite. Although she is best remembered as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, she was a talented writer and artist in her own right, which caused the couple a great deal of conflict.
Zelda wrote one novel (Save Me the Waltz) and an unstaged play, Scandalabra. What is less known is that she wrote various articles for periodicals, including College Humor, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New York Tribune. Here, we’ll take a closer look at five of these forgotten features. Read More→
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