Meet Alix Kates Schulman

[close] "I challenged ideas with my essays, ideas that were just so taken for granted that challenging them was itself a political act."

Fearless and controversial from the very start of her career in the tumultuous 1960s, author and feminist Alix Kates Shulman helped ignite a nationwide debate about gender equality with her essays, novels, and activism.

Here Shulman talks about coming of age during a crucial time in the women's liberation movement and how that experience helped shape her writing, nonfiction and fiction alike.