What began as a hobby late in life has become a rather serious venture for me. I was fortunate enough to get articles and stories published in several magazines and other publications. I have written a book on the 1957 unsolved Chicago murders of two sisters, published in 2006. I live in Chicago.

Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: My Daughter My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity by Nancy Friday

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Following Nancy Friday's steps through childhood and into adulthood is much like retracing our own. Times and locations are different, but the feelings she describes are all too familiar to those of us who are female. Also familiar are Ms. Friday's remarkable insight and simultaneous vulnerability and occasional yielding to the socialization process whose number she has. The book was published in 1977, when issues of the Women's Movement were at the fore, and revisiting it now resurrects concerns-both psychological and feminist-that we might have forgotten. In this book, astounding in its d...

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