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The last gift of time life beyond sixty

The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life.

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Main Author: Heilbrun, Carolyn G., 1926-2003
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1998.
Edition:1st Ballantine Books ed.
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Heilbrun, Carolyn G., > 1926-2003.
Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Older women > United States > Biography.
Old age.
Aging.
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Summary:The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life.
Item Description:Originally published by Dial Press, ©1997.
Physical Description:225 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223).
ISBN:0345422953 (pbk.)
9780345422958 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was born in East Orange, New Jersey on January 13, 1926. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Wellesley College in 1947 and a master's degree in 1951 and a doctorate in 1959 from Columbia University. She spent almost her entire academic career at Columbia University, joining the faculty in 1960 as an instructor of English and comparative literature and retiring as the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities in 1992.

She wrote several books under her real name including Toward a Recognition of Androgyny: Aspects of Male and Female in Literature, Reinventing Womanhood, Writing a Woman's Life, and The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty. She wrote the Kate Fansler Mystery series under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. She committed suicide on October 9, 2003.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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