Word: experimentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That work is attracting a new and concentrated attention. The last time a constellation of equal prominence appeared was in the Great Depression era, when talents as varied as Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Edna Ferber, Poet Marianne Moore and Experimentalist Gertrude Stein were among the decade's most prominent literary celebrities. But they worked in an era less obsessed by the politics of gender. Today, says Simon & Schuster Editor in Chief Michael Korda, "women writers are being noticed more because more attention is being paid to women as a group...
...marvelous experimentalist-- including even practical jokes at the expense of his colleagues," Wilson said at the service...