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, 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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