”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918.

Latest episodes of the podcast Women Who Make Our Novels by Grant M. Overton

• 00 - Introduction
• 01 - Edith Wharton
• 02 - Alice Brown
• 03 - Ellen Glasgow
• 04 - Gertrude Atherton
• 05 - Mary Roberts Rinehart
• 06 - Kathleen Norris
• 07 - Margaret Deland
• 08 - Gene Stratton-Porter
• 09 - Eleanor H. Porter
• 10 - Kate Douglas Wiggin
• 11 - Mary Johnston
• 12 - Corra Harris
• 13 - Mary Austin
• 14 - Mary S. Watts
• 15 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 16 - Anna Katharine Green
• 17 - Helen R. Martin
• 18 - Sophie Kerr
• 19 - Marjorie Benton Cooke
• 20 - Grace S. Richmond
• 21 - Willa Sibert Cather
• 22 - Clara Louise Burnham
• 23 - Demetra Vaka
• 24 - Edna Ferber
• 25 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• 26 - Amelia E. Barr
• 27 - Alice Hegan Rice
• 28 - Alice Duer Miller
• 29 - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• 30 - Harriet T. Comstock
• 31 - Honore Willsie
• 32 - Frances Hodgson Burnett