Alix Kates Shulman

Alix Kates Shulman is a feminist activist and writer who has published fifteen books, including the now-classic novel Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972), and the anthology Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can (Library of America, 2021), co-edited with Honor Moore.

Women Writers in the Beat Generation

by Alix Kates Shulman I know that I shall be the se And the mother And never me. Wait I am here Under the sea Recognize me —Sally Stern, “Wait I’ve Been This Way Before,” from The Beat Scene When I was doing research for my 1978 novel Burning