The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1960, Harvard's sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a "messy experiment" in women's education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or "the equivalent" in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships--poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Marianna Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen--quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves "the Equivalents." Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation.
"Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship."
--Harper's Magazine
"Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account."
--Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Maggie Doherty teaches first-year writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, The New York Times, n+1, and The Nation. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525434603 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525434607 |
| Title | The Equivalents |
| Author | Maggie Doherty |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2021-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020 |
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