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Marilyn Yalom

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.myalom.com

genre

Women & Gender Studies, History, Nonfiction

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Marilyn Yalom grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on women, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, and the author of numerous books and articles on literature and women's history.

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Books by Marilyn Yalom

Average rating: 3.74 · 708 ratings · 140 reviews · 14 distinct works

	A History of the Wife 3.77 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	History of the Breast 3.93 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Birth of the Chess Queen: A History 3.51 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom, Reid S. Yalom (Photographs) 3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Maternity, Mortality, And The Literature Of Madness 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 27 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More by Marilyn Yalom (Editor), Autumn Stephens (Editor) 2.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century by Marilyn Yalom, Diane Wood Middlebrook (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:
	How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Women Writers Of The West Coast: Speaking Of Their Lives And Careers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: