Rosellen Brown (born May 12, 1939) is an American author, and has been an instructor of English and creative writing at several universities, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has won several grants and awards for her work, and...
"I make large narrative gestures," says Rosellen Brown in an that closes the recently issued Rosellen Brown Reader. "They vault me into lives in order to do what I really want: to examine characters and write as beautifully as I can." Those gestures have...
Byline: BY CALVIN WILSON Kansas City Star It's the American dream: Write a novel, make a Hollywood deal, get Mel Gibson and Meryl Streep to star. Say goodbye to anonymity, stock up on sunglasses. That's the way it's supposed to go. But...
In the following essay, Wolk examines the emotional and behavioral dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Brown's The Autobiography of My Mother, using Nancy Chodorow's study The Reproduction of Mothering as a reference guide.
