Carolyn Heilbrun

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun , also known under the pseudonym Amanda Cross , (born January 13, 1926 in East Orange ; New Jersey , † October 9, 2003 in Manhattan , New York City , NY ) was an American writer and suffragette.

Life

Carolyn Gold studied at the prestigious women's university Wellesley College near Boston and English literature at Columbia University , New York City. She married James Heilbrun, professor of economics, and had three children with him. In 1986 she became the first director of the Research Institute for Women's Issues at Columbia University.

Heilbrun wrote 9 feminist works and numerous essays and press articles in which she interpreted literature, especially the literary works of women, from the perspective of a feminist .

Under the pseudonym "Amanda Cross" Heilbrun published 13 detective novels about the literature professor Kate Fansler .

She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Heilbrun died on October 9, 2003 by suicide . She had already dealt with the subject of suicide in 1997 in the essay volume The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty ("The last gift: Life beyond the 60s", not translated into German).

Works

1. Writing a Woman's Life (From the Life of a Woman)
2. Christopher Isherwood , 1970
3. The Representation of Women in Fiction: Selected Papers from the English Institute , 1983
4. Hamlet's Mother and Other Women , 1990
5. Toward a Recognition of Androgyny , 1993
6. The Education of a Woman: The Life and Times of Gloria Steinem , 1996
7. The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty , 1997
8. Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold , 1999
9. Reinventing Womanhood (redefining femininity)
10. When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling , 2001

Amanda Cross

1. In the Last Analysis (Hazardous Practice), 1964
2. The James Joyce Murder (In the Best Circles), 1967
3. Poetic Justice (A Fine Society), 1970
4. The Theban Mysteries (School for Major Daughters), 1971
5. The Question of Max , 1976
6. Death in a Tenured Position (The Dead of Harvard), 1981
7. Sweet Death, Kind Death , 1984
8. No Word from Winifred (Alberta's Shadow), 1986
9. A Trap for Fools , 1989
10. The Players Come Again , 1990
11. An Imperfect Spy , 1995
12. The Puzzled Heart , 1998
13. Honest Doubt , 2000
14. The Edge of Doom , 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Amanda Cross in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carolyn Heilbrun
• Vanessa Grigoriadis: A Death of One's Own . In: New York Magazine , December 8, 2003 (detailed article on Heilbrun's life and her suicide, English)
• "Ideas move rapidly when their time comes." Brief biography on Columbia University website, English

Individual evidence

1. ^ Book of Members