Katha Pollitt

Standard Name: Pollitt, Katha

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Fay Weldon
This novel was better-regarded than its predecessor. In the year after publication it was awarded a Booker McConnell Prize nomination by the National Book League .
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
63: 440
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983.
14: 750
Reviewers, including Kelley Cherry in...
Literary responses Alice Walker
Some reviewers were tiring of AW 's committed stance. Katha Pollitt in the New York Times complained that these stories were partisan (the black woman is always the most sympathetic character).
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
329
The Kirkus Review...

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Texts

Pollitt, Katha. “Fourteen million Americans can’t be wrong”. London Review of Books, pp. 13-14.
Pollitt, Katha. “Our Soft-Shelled Condition”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-3.