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Amanda Cross

  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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Cross, Amanda
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Person
Gender
Female
Date of birth
1926-01-13
Place of birth
East Orange
Date of death
2003-10-09
Place of death
Manhattan

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Carolyn Heilbrun (née 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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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic and, under the pen name Amanda Cross, writer of crime stories and novels.

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