Author (28-Aug-1924 — 29-Jan-2004)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Val�rie Baisn�e. Gendered Resistance: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras. Rodopi. 1997. 176pp.

Michael King. Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. London: Picador. 2001. 583pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.231)

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.537)

7. Contemporary Novelists (pp.424-27)

8. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.487-89)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.363)

10. The International Who's Who 2001 (p.518)

11. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.180)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.185)

13. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p.391)

14. The Penguin Companion to English Literature (p.193)

15. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.210)

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