Maggie Doherty
Books by Maggie Doherty
“The Equivalents is magnificent social history, a collective snapshot of an overlooked moment in American feminism; we meet these women crossing the bridge between first and second wave feminism. The institute provided them with the rooms of their own to which Virginia Woolf had aspired, but it turned out they needed more of E M Forster’s edict to ‘only connect.'” Read more...
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist
Elizabeth Taylor, Biographer
Interviews where books by Maggie Doherty were recommended
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley -
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by Zachary D. Carter -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne -
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
by Heather Clark -
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
by Maggie Doherty
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Elizabeth Taylor
The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist, recommended by Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor, the author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics’ Circle biography committee, discusses their 2021 shortlist for the title of the best biography—including a revelatory new book about the life of Malcolm X, a group biography of artists in the 1960s, and a book built from a cache of letters written in Japan’s shogun era.
