![]() ![]() Only two of the writers are Latin American. Of the twenty-six writers, only four are women, all white. In his book The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Bloom creates a list of writers whom he deems to be the most important literary figures of the western world. The same is true even when you ask a non-layperson - consider the late Harold Bloom, an esteemed literary critic and Yale professor. There’s a deep-seated cultural bias in favor of male writers - that their stories are important and universal and women’s stories are frivolous, or niche. Twenty-two spots on the “ Best Novelists” list). (It’s not scientific, but if you look at the user-generated list of “ The Best Writers of All Time” on Ranker, you have to scroll twenty spots before a woman appears. If you were to ask a random person on the street to name five great writers, I’d bet money that at least four of them would be men. My writing about a teenage boy could beĮven being consciously aware of it, I had absorbed the understanding that My writingĪbout teen girls was silly, I thought. ![]() I began writing short stories, almost all with male protagonists. Poetry or the first chapters of quickly-abandoned young adult novels and Was in high school, I got it in my head that I should stop writing diaristic ![]()
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