Broadway World, May 12, 2010
...Linney's and Eleanor Cooney's OVER MARTINIS, DRIVING SOMEWHERE, Steven Sater's & Duncan Sheik's UMBRAGE, Kate Walbert's A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN, and Jennifer Westfeldt's screenplay FRIENDS WITH KIDS.The Powerhouse Apprentice Company once ...
Lakeland Ledger, January 2, 2010
...poker player, racehorse rider and bush pilot. The result reanimates a chapter of America's frontier past. "A Short History of Women," by Kate Walbert, Scribner, $24. The 15 lean, concentrated chapters in this exquisitely written novel ...
New Haven Register, December 20, 2009
...first-person voice, has been called Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, and just might become a classic. - “A Short History of Women” by Kate Walbert (Scribner, $24). It may be short, but this feminist novel doesn’t stint on power and ...
The Connecticut Post, November 6, 2009
...fiction with 'Crossers.' He's joined by Joseph Kanon, with 'Stardust,' Christina Baker Kline and 'Bird in Hand,' Kate Walbert with 'A Short History of Women,' and Wendy Walker with 'Social Lives.' Children's Poet Laureate, Mary Ann Hoberman ...
Rutland Herald, October 9, 2009
...CHESTER - National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert will present her new book, 'A Short History of Women,' at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Misty Valley Books The book chronicles five generations of women in England ...
Westport Now, October 1, 2009
...Author Kate Walbert discussed her latest book, A Short History of Women, at a Westport Public Library appearance today. The novel follows five generations of women from the British suffrage movement through ...
Crikey Media, August 25, 2009
...penchant for cleaning up little things like this, we?ll soon see the president with a copy of Kate Walbert?s A Short History of Women.? +++ As a rather distinguished writer himself of both books and speeches, I?m sorry that Obama?s ...
Seattle Times, June 22, 2009
...'A Short History of Women' by Kate Walbert Scribner, 237 pp., $24 What, wonders a character in Kate Walbert's 'A Short History of Women,' is The Woman Question? Dorothy, a woman ...
Dallas Morning News, June 21, 2009
...Befitting its title, A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert's new novel is an ambitious attempt to tackle a big issue, the role of women in society. Walbert sets the tone with the opening ...
Columbus Dispatch, June 18, 2009
...A Short History of Women is for any woman who has struggled to find her own voice -- to make sense of being a mother, wife, daughter and lover. But it's ...