Phyllis Rose

PHYLLIS ROSE is the author of two biographical works, Woman of Letter: A Life of Virginia Woolf and Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. She has written about literature and life for The Atlantic, Vogue, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Times Book Review, and The Nation, and did the "Hers" column for the New York Times for ten weeks. Some of her reviews and literary essays appeared in her collection, Writing of Women. A professor of English at Wesleyan University, she is currently working on a book about Josephine Baker, the black American dancer who went to Paris in 1925 and never came back.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317). Ticknor & Fields.