Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian and the author of The Extra Woman. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and New Yorker, and created the Paris Review series 'Feminize Your Canon'. Raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Sussex universities, she gained her PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York.
'Incredibly resonant in today's times, and a profound read' FIONA DAVIS, New York Times-bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue 'Deeply researched and deftly rendered... a spirited, inspiring history' LAUREN ELKIN, author of Flaneuse 'A transporting tour-de-force of storytelling' JANICE P. NIMURA, author of The Doctors Blackwell 'Spirit and panache... one for anyone interested in the history of feminism, friendship, or New York City' RUTH FRANKLIN, award winning author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 'A wonderful tribute to the restless audacious [and] creative spirit that pushes a culture beyond convention and complacency and toward something new... fascinating' MAGGIE DOHERTY, award winning author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s