The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

Name: The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
ISBN: 9781524733056

by Maggie Doherty

National Book · 2020 · Shortlist

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KnopfApril 21, 2020Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9781524733056

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2020	Shortlist

About This Book

Maggie Doherty's group biography tells the story of five women who received the first fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute in 1961 — including Maxine Kumin, Tillie Olsen, and Anne Sexton — and the liberating community they formed. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Maggie DohertyAmerican

Maggie Doherty is an American writer, literary critic, and visiting lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University, where she earned her PhD in English in 2015 after a BA from Yale in 2007. She is the author of the acclaimed group biography The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020), which won the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography; her essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, New York Review of Books, and The Nation. (maggiedohertyauthor.com/about, Harvard English.