Elaine Showalter
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Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
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Geoffrey HillAlso won Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
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Fredric JamesonAlso won Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Helen VendlerAlso won Truman Capote Award for Literary CriticismAbout this person
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Born 1941 · age 85
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