Lauren Marino is the author of What Would Dolly Do? and Jackie and Cassini. The founding editor of Gotham Books, she has published multiple bestsellers and award-winning books. Alexandra Kilburn is a painter, muralist, illustrator, and stylist who lives and works in New Orleans.
Marino's book enlightens, entertains, and empowers by bringing women's literature to the forefront and contextualizing these writers in the larger historical conversations which shaped their work and which their work reshaped. -- Southern Review of Books Marino's chronicle of women wordsmiths invites readers to better appreciate the influence of past writers on their modern counterparts and to embrace a more inclusive, global view of the female experience...Bookish Broads illuminates the transformative legacy of women writers and invites us to join a story still unfolding. -- Charleston Post and Courier