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A Short Biography of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Author Name:

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Born As:

Amanda Cross

Other Names:

Born:

13 Jan 1926

Died:

09 Oct 2003




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Writer, academic and feminist                          
Selected Works:

Kate Fansler mysteries:

In The Last Analysis - 1964
The James Joyce Murder - 1967
Poetic Justice - 1970
The Theban Mysteries - 1972
The Question of Max - 1976
Death in a Tenured Position - 1981, Nero Award winner
Sweet Death, Kind Death  - 1984
No Word From Winifred - 1984
A Trap for Fools - 1989
The Players Come Again - 1990
An Imperfect Spy - 1995
The Puzzled Heart - 1998
Honest Doubt - 2000
The Edge of Doom - 2002

Writing a Woman's Life - 1988 - These books include:

The Garnett Family - 1961
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny - 1973
Lady Ottoline's Album - 1976 - editor
Reinventing Womanhood - 1979
The Representation of Women in Fiction - 1983 - co-editor
Hamlet's Mother and Other Women - 1990 - collection of essays
The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem - 1995
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty - 1997                          
Mother Estelle Roemer Gold
Father Archibald Gold
Husband James Heilbrun, three children.                          
Carolyn taught English at Columbia from 1960 to 1993, and was the first woman to receive tenure in the English department.                           
Wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.

Carolyn Heilbrun kept her second career as a mystery novelist secret in order to protect her academic career, until a fan discovered "Amanda Cross"'s true identity through copyright records. records.