Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun ( Gold; January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at
Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific
feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular
mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of
Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide.
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