| Member Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Carol Ascher | A Stalwart Allegiance: The Life of Mary Todd |
| Patricia Auspos | Marriage and career in the lives of five late-19th/early-20th-century women |
| Susan Barile | The Letters of Edith Wharton to Bernard & Mary Berenson |
| Evelyn Barish | Current: Memoir and Sea Change: Women Artists Abroad Previous: The Double Life of Paul De Man (2014). |
| Louise Bernikow | Vote for Women NY: The Campaign for the City. |
| Sallie Bingham | Bio of Doris Duke; "The Silver Swan. In Search of Doris Duke" (Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2002); Treason a collection of a play, short story and a novella (Sarabande Books, 2002) |
| Annette Blaugrund | Current: Annette Blaugrund memoir and studio of Thomas Cole Previous: The Way Back: The Paintings of George A. Weymouth, A Brandywine River Visionary( 2017). |
| Betty Boyd Caroli | Current: American women in Venice Previous: Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage that made A President (2015). |
| Alexis Boylan | Boylan is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (2017). She recently curated an exhibition about painter Ellen Emmet Rand and her edited collection on Rand will be published in 2020. Her next book project focuses on the art created for the American Museum of Natural History. |
| Rachel Brownstein | 18th century satiric prints and the novel |
| Elizabeth Brunazzi | Andree Viollis et Elsa Triolet, deux femmes ecrivaines et journalistes dans la presse clandestine de la Resistance et l'apres-guerre. This project is a continuation of my research and publication on the career and writing of international French correspondent Andree Viollis. |
| Abigail Burnham Bloom | Currently working on: (1) Key Popular Women Writers: Geraldine Jewsbury (2) Leading the Way for Victorian Women: Geraldine Jewsbury and Victorian Culture |
| Mary Ann Caws | Mina Loy, Alice Paalen Rahon, surrealism essays |
| Kathy Chamberlain | Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship, and Marriage (2017) |
| Norah Chase | Elba Chase Nelson, head of the Communist Party of NH 1934-1961 |
| Bell Chevigny | Memoir of Important Friendships with Women |
| Karen Christensen | Too Near the Flame: Valerie Eliot, Sophia Mumford, and the Price We Pay for Love is bio-memoir about women and power. |
| Ava Chin | Family memoir set in turn-of-the-century New York's Chinatown. |
| Heather Clark | Biography of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath |
| Barbara Flug Colin | Memoir |
| Sally Cook | Sally Cook is currently working on an authorized biography of Maureen Connolly, the number one female tennis player in the world in the early 1950s. Connolly had a spectacular career that was cut short when she was 19. Cook is also working on an illustrated history of women playing baseball. An award-winning author of eight books for both children and adults, Cook wrote a weekly column for the Associated Press and has written features for many national magazines. She has enjoyed teaching creative writing to children. In 2008 Cook established a program to bring authors and illustrators to hospitalized children in the New York City area |
| Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume III (2016) |
| Kate Culkin | Previous: Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography (2010). Current project: a joint biography of Ellen Tucker Emerson & Edith Forbes Emerson, daughters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| June Cumberbatch | Liaison, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies |
| Deirdre David | Memoir: "Barrow Girl: The Blitz, Brixton, and Beyond" |
| Dâna-Ain Davis | Liaison with CUNY Graduate Center, Women and Gender Studies. |
| Rebecca Donner | All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days (forthcoming: Little, Brown). |
| Barbara Fisher | Current project: Lionel Trilling, Literary and cultural critic of mid-century America. |
| Jennifer Fleischner (on leave) | Mrs Lincoln & Mrs Keckly, Elizabeth Heyrick, Br abolitionist. |
| Ruth Franklin | Previous: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (2016), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Current: a short biography of Anne Frank for the Yale Jewish Lives series (projected 2022) |
| Sara B. Franklin | Sara B. Franklin is a writer, oral historian, wife, and mother of twins. She studied documentary radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and earned her PhD from NYU's food studies program and teaches writing, oral history, and food studies at NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study and via NYU's Prison Education Program at Wallkill Correctional Facility. She lives with her family in the Hudson Valley. |
| Johanna Garfield | Continuing work on Willard Roosevelt and his family, He was a grandson of Teddy and a longtime neighbor of ours in Mass. |
| Allison Gilbert | Elsie Robinson biography |
| Sherry Gorelick | "On the Road to Peace" Collective biography of N Am Jewish Feminists & the Isreali Palestinian conflict. |
| Linda Grasso | Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism |
| Barbara Gray | Bio. of 19th-century criminal Sophie Lyons: Queen of the Underworld: the Story of America's most notorious con woman. |
| Rachel Greenfield | Biography of Rose Knox - President of Knox Gelatine (1908-1948) and admired American female business leader, now forgotten |
| Kathryn Hearst | Historian working on book, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst: Civic Builder of the West"; Biographical article, "Mother and Son: Phoebe Apperson Hearst & William Randolph Hearst" |
| Dorothy O. Helly | Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard (1852-1929), novelist, journalist, champion of Empire. |
| Barbara Horn | Literary Images of Farm Women - Farmed Out: Women in the Heartland. |
| Gail Hornstein | Previous biographies: To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (2000) and Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness (2009). Our Minds and Each Other. |
| Polly Howells | Family memoir. |
| Sheila Isenberg | After four biographies, including Muriel's War (Muriel Gardiner) and A Hero of Our Own (Varian Fry), I am working on a proposal for Mad, Bad and Dangerous, a look at the subject of women and true crime from a sociological and psychological perspective. |
| Diane Jacobs | Previous Project: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters (2014). Currently: A biography of Edith Wharton during her Paris years 1907 - 1920. |
| Marjorie G. Jones | Subject of my first biography, Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (2008), Frances Yates has now become a sleuth: Recently published "In the Convent" takes place in Mexico and "In the Meeting", which takes place in Philadelphia, is scheduled for publication in 2021. |
| Eve Kahn | Promoting 2019 bio of artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857-1907), planning book on writer Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914), known as a Queen of Bohemia |
| Carla Kaplan | Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (2013), a group biography of the 1920s. Currently: biography of Jessica Milford. |
| Jane Lancaster | I am thinking about the posthumous reputation of Madame Eliza Jumel, a self-made 19th century New Yorker. The story of her early life became fake news writ large when relatives fought over her fortune and her very real achievements have been overwhelmed by scandal. Author of "Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond Cheaper By the Dozen." |
| Patricia Laurence | |
| Gail Levin | Previous biographies: Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (1995; 2nd edition 2007); Becoming Judy Chicago (2007); Lee Krasner: A Biography (2011). Currently: Memoir about working on Edward & Jo Hopper at the Whitney Museum and discovered a thief in the form of a Baptist Preacher |
| Laurie Lisle | My memoir, Word for Word: A Writer's Memoir, is about the writing life. My biographies are Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life |
| Sarah M. Lowe | Family memoir: beginning in Paris 1914 where my grandmother went from NYC to study voice with Yvette Guilbert. |
| Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis | Liaison, CUNY Graduate Center, MA in Liberal Studies |
| Emily Arnold McCully | Author/Illustrator of award-winning children's and Y/A biographies of women. |
| Sara McDougall | She has written about bigamy, adultery, marriage, crime, and illegitimate children in medieval Europe and is now writing about women surviving illicit pregnancy in medieval France. |
| Honor Moore | Currently: Memoir of my mother Jenny McKean Moore |
| Marnie Mueller | Mary Mon Toy, Nisei showgirl who had been interned during WW 11, a memoir and biography of our friendship in the shadow of the Internment of Japanese Americans. |
| Dona Munker | "Sara and Erskine: An American Romance" (working title) |
| Janice Nimura | Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (2015), The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine (2021) |
| Jill Norgren | Writing the book "Her Hat Was in the Ring," with Wendy Chmielewski. We set the campaigning and wins/losses of U.S. women who ran for elective office, 1853-1920, in historical and political context. |
| Victoria Olsen | Memoir of my father and grandfather's careers in art and design. Previous biography: From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography. |
| Sreca Perunovic | A memoir about my two lives: The first one in the former Yugoslavia and the second my American life. |
| Carla Peterson | I am currently working on a book tentatively titled, "Urbanity and Taste: The Making of African American Modernity in Antebellum Philadelphia and New York." Previous biography: Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (2011), including archive. |
| Victoria Phillips | Victoria Phillips is the author of Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy, which explores the international political life of Martha Graham to promote the United States on in over thirty nations for every presidential administration from Franklin D. Roosevelt through George H.W. Bush.She is a Visiting Fellow and Guest Lecturer at the London School of Economics, Associated Faculty at the Harriman Institute, director of the Cold War Archival Research project (CWAR), Columbia University. Her next project is a political biography of Eleanor Lansing Dulles and her years in divided Austria and Berlin, 1945-1961. |
| Susan Quinn | Susan Quinn’s most recent book is Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady. She also wrote A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney, Marie Curie: A Life, and Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times. Current Project: A group biography of the political women who influenced Eleanor Roosevelt (Esther Lape, Molly Dewson, Nan Cook, Marion Dickerman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rose Schneiderman) |
| Amy Reading | Current project: Katharine S. White Edits the New Yorker, about the first and longtime fiction editor of the magazine. Previous book: The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con (a creative nonfiction biography of a mark, Frank Norfleet) |
| Harriet Rose Reisen | Previous biography: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (2009). Currently: On the Cover of Time: A Memoir in Songs |
| Roxana Robinson | Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books, from Georgia O’Keeffe: A life to Dawson’s Fall. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Four of her books were New York Times Notables. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Times. She is President Emerita of the Authors Guild, and teaches at Hunter College. |
| Stacy Schiff | Cleopatra: A Life (2010); The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2015). |
| Dee Shapiro | Grandma Sarah, a Fictional Biography (tentative title) of my grandmother, an ILGWU member,witness to the Triangle Factory Fire. She lived to 105. Art exhibitions, October 2014 - June 2015. Curated Exhibition "Tailored" May 2015. www.deeshapiro.com |
| Alix Kates Shulman | Previous memoir: To Love What Is: a marriage transformed (2008) and Menage, a novel (2012). Currently: The Visionaries, a novel about 1960s radical feminist activists in their old age (now). |
| Sydney Ladensohn Stern | Previous: Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique (1997). The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics, about Herman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2019) |
| Nancy Rubin Stuart | Previous biographies: The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox and The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married (2013), double biography of Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flicker Knox. Currently: Historical Novel on early 20th century dancer. |
| Terese Svoboda | Previous: Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical poet. In development: Hitler and My Mother-in-Law |
| Julia Van Haaften | Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), American photographer, inventor, writer, teacher. "Masters of Photography” (Aperture 2015). "A Life in Photography” (W. W. Norton 2018). In development: memoir on my career in photography at NYPL, 1974-2001. |
| Patricia Valenti | As co-author with Rosalind Boone Williams, Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years (Hamilton, 2019). Previous biographies: To Myself a Stranger: A Biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (LSU Press, 1991); Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, 2 Vols. (University of Missouri Press, 2004, 2015) |
| Frances Vieta | Looter's Paradise, Recovering Italy's Plundered Treasures. A historical novel "Love in the land of Barefoot Soldiers" |
| Lise Vogel | Memoir, set in part during the Spanish Civil War and provisionally titled "Sidney and Lisa: My Father, His Lover, and Myself". |
| Sheila Weller | Author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge |
| Kate Wenner | Kate Wenner is the author of two novels, Setting Fires and Dancing with Einstein, and Shamba Letu, a memoir of living in a village in Tanzania. She is completing a new memoir, Rainbow Road, which examines the roots of her mother's pathological narcissism and the legacy of that history in her own life. |
| Brenda Wineapple | "White Heat" about the friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson published by Knopf(2008). "Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, Compromise,1848 -1877" (much about women's suffrage) published by Harper, 2013. Currently, a book about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Random House. |
| Michele Zacheim | Memoir of a Biographer. |
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