In honor of Women’s History month, we give you some excellent recommendations of biographies of women writers–past & present…

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath

Toni Morrison: A Biography

Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

Anne Sexton: A Biography

Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures

Flannery O’Connor: A Biography

Border Crossings: The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros

Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait