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March 1999
Compiled by Lesa Holstine of Ft. Myers, FL, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Male Authors with Female Protagonists

Jewel - Brett Lott
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Midwives - Christopher Bohjalian
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
Raney - Clyde Edgerton
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris (with a caution that his wife, Louise Erdrich, might have written it)
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All - Allan Gurganus
Mating - Norman Rush
They Whisper - Robert Olen Butler
One Thousand White Women - Jil Fergus
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
A Widow for One Year - John Irving
Marjorie Morningstar - Herman Wouk
Dalva - Jim Harrison
Miriam at Thirty Four - Alan Lelchuk
A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies
Kate Vaidan - Reynolds Price
Roxanna Slade - Reynolds Price

Female Authors with Male Protagonist

Larry's Party - Carol Shields
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
The Short History of a Prince - Jane Hamilton
Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley

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First published on the Web: 11/21/2000
Last updated: 11/21/2000