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  Carolyn Gold Heilbrun | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
When, in 1992, the feminist scholar and theorist Carolyn Heilbrun, who has died aged 77, abruptly resigned her post in the Columbia University English department, her many admirers quickly mounted a conference in her honour, entitling the event Out Of The Academy And Into The World.
Heilbrun was born in East Orange, New Jersey.
One of Heilbrun's final books (as Heilbrun rather than Cross) was The Last Gift Of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (1995), a collection of meditations on ageing that seems on the surface to praise the pleasures that attend a healthy, creative and loving late life.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1073806,00.html   (776 words)

  
  Carolyn Gold Heilbrun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 - October 9, 2003), American academic and feminist author, wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
Heilbrun taught English at Columbia University from 1960 to 1993.
Heilbrun initially kept her second career as a mystery novelist secret in order to protect her academic career.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/c/ca/carolyn_gold_heilbrun.html   (196 words)

  
 Person of the Week: Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun, Class of 1947, is important both to feminist scholars and to mystery buffs.
When interviewed in 1984 at the time she received the Alumnae Achievement Award, Heilbrun confessed that as a city dweller, she often was lonely and miserable at Wellesley.
Heilbrun did not reveal that she was Amanda Cross until after she got tenure at Columbia--and was the first woman in the English Department to do so.
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/heilbrun.html   (492 words)

  
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Kate Fansler is an enduring presence in Heilbrun's life, though not always a tractable one: she insisted on marrying the dashing lawyer Reed Amhearst halfway through the series, to Heilbrun's annoyance, and remains loyal to Freudian interpretation (Heilbrun, though a fervid Manhattanite, has never been analyzed) and to frequent restorative martinis and cigarettes.
Heilbrun remembers her mother as a woman who "never had the courage to do anything herself in life but saw everything, and saw through everything, very clearly." An only child, Heilbrun grew up solitary in 1930's Manhattan, roller-skating for hours or devouring biographies (in strict alphabetical order) in the St.
Carolyn Heilbrun helped found academic feminism, but she has always remained slightly apart, allied to no camp, entirely pleasing no one with her insistence that literature and life are linked, that we are the stories we tell.
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 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun information - Search.com
Heilbrun graduated from Wellesley College in 1947, and attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959.
Heilbrun was the first woman to receive tenure in the English department.
Heilbrun kept her second career as a mystery novelist secret in order to protect her academic career, until a fan discovered "Amanda Cross"'s true identity through copyright records.
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 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Summary
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (born January 13, 1926 in East Orange, New Jersey; died October 9, 2003) was an American academic and feminist author who also wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
In the following essay, Dever comments on the state of feminism through an exploration of the relationship between academic and personal life in Marilyn French's The Women's Room and Heilbrun's Death in a Tenured Position.
In the following essay, Feldman explores the collaboration between Heilbrun and Gloria Steinem, which resulted in The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem.
www.bookrags.com /Carolyn_Gold_Heilbrun   (175 words)

  
 Remembering Carolyn Heilbrun: Feminist Scholarship and Suicide
Not only was Carolyn Heilbrun the first woman to be given tenure at Columbia (omitted by the Times), she didn't just "retire" after three decades there, she resigned in protest (also omitted by the Times) over sexual discrimination - not against her but against one of her students.
The thought that the great Carolyn Heilbrun cut her own life short before she could devote a full investigation to this idea is to me as tragic as the loss of Heilbrun the memoirist, the elderly curmudgeon.
Carolyn" - would seem to confirm she made a decision that was hardly "senseless" to her.
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 Holt Uncensored #377 :: 10/24/03
All the obituaries mentioned this after Heilbrun did, at 77, overdose on pills and even affix a plastic bag over her head so that she would be found dead, also without muss or fuss, by a friend.
This is the same Heilbrun who concealed her identity as the pseudonymous mystery writer Amanda Cross, whose blistering indictments of academic life, woven into each Ivy League murder, at a stuffy male-dominated university like Columbia might have jeopardized her tenure.
Soon Heilbrun, never a joiner, became known as the proven academic who was weighing in with feminist scholarship by writing now-classic scholarly works such as "Toward a Recognition of Androgyny," "Reinventing Womanhood," "Writing a Woman's Life" and other works she mixed in with more literary volumes ("Christopher Isherwood," "The Garnet Family") and memoirs.
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 The suicide of feminist Carolyn Heilbrun
Not many people came by the apartment: Heilbrun did not like dinner parties and, despite the fact that she was once a generous hostess, announced late in life that she would no longer give any of her own.
Tuesday at 11:30 was the time Heilbrun walked in the park with her old friend and colleague Mary Ann Caws, a literary critic and art historian.
At the time of her suicide, Heilbrun was not sick, nor had she been, to anyone’s knowledge, recently informed of some impending illness.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/people/n_9589   (1165 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, a feminist scholar and mystery novelist, took her own life on Oct. 7.
As a child, Heilbrun was a voracious reader.
When she was away from the ivory tower world of academia, Heilbrun wrote best-selling mystery novels.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000401.html   (467 words)

  
 Amanda Cross
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, better known as Amanda Cross, is one of the most famous feminist crime writers.
After graduating from Wellesley College in 1947, she took a masters and a doctorate in English at Columbia in 1951 and 1959.
Here Heilbrun was first professor of English in 1972 and then Avalon Foundation professor of humanities in 1986.
www.bastulli.com /Cross/Cross.htm   (1536 words)

  
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 About the Contributors | S&F Online | Writing a Feminist's Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun
She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (Columbia U.P., 2005) and, with Nancy K. Miller, editor of the Gender and Culture series that Miller and Carolyn Heilbrun established at Columbia University Press.
Rosner was a student in the last graduate seminar Heilbrun taught before leaving Columbia and wrote her M.A. thesis under Heilbrun's direction.
She was Carolyn Heilbrun's colleague in the Columbia English Department from 1985 to 1991.
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 Amazon.com: Carolyn G. Heilbrun : Feminist in a Tenured Postion (Feminist Issues (Univ Pr of Virginia)): Books: Susan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Carolyn G. Heilbrun is renowned as a provocative feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels.
In Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan Kress provides a compelling intellectual biography, tracing the evolution of Heilbrun's thought and career in the context of the major debates and transformations of the contemporary women's movement.
To say that Carolyn Gold was born on 13 January 1916 is not only to give official biography a dutiful nod but also to establish the historical context for her early years, a time in which the world might well have seemed to be spinning toward catastrophe.
www.amazon.com /Carolyn-G-Heilbrun-Feminist-Virginia/dp/0813917514   (996 words)

  
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 Salem on Literature | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun proclaims in Reinventing Womanhood, “I had been born a feminist and never wavered from that position.” In a struggle to trace the origin of these feminist leanings, Heilbrun—born both Jewish and female—looks to her childhood and her experience as an outsider.
The only child of Archibald and Estelle (Roemer) Gold, Heilbrun grew up in Manhattan and received a private school education.
Although she describes her own mother’s life as full of “emptiness and futility,” Heilbrun gained from her mother’s loss.
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 Eleven Faculty Elected To AAAS And NAS
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus of Humanities; Heilbrun, who has been called Columbia's "most famous feminist," is a renowned literary scholar and has been a vocal conscience for gender issues.
She is the author of the books Reinventing Womanhood, The Garnett Family and a number of mystery novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross.
Heilbrun is the former president of the Modern Language Association and is the founding president of the Virginia Wolff Society.
www.columbia.edu /cu/pr/00/06/newMember.html   (870 words)

  
 Online Resources | S&F Online | Writing a Feminist's Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun
"Carolyn Gold Heilbrun", obituary by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar from The Guardian.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Papers, 1846-1979, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
"Carolyn Heilbrun, Pioneering Feminist Scholar, Dies at 77", obituary by Robert D McFadden from The New York Times.
www.barnard.edu /sfonline/heilbrun/resource.htm   (156 words)

  
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 The Original Blog » Blog Archive » God gets medieval
October 11, 2003 —; Feminist trailblazer Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, better known by her mystery novel nom de plume Amanda Cross, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment, a victim of her promise to take her own life.
This entry was posted on Saturday, October 25th, 2003 at 1:44 am and is filed under Culture.
The article could just as accurately have said that Heilbrun oppressed and ravaged herself, but that wouldn’t be dainty.
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