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Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll"

BIOGRAPHY

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(b. 1936)

Born and raised in Detroit, Marge Piercy received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from Northwestern University. She taught for some time before the success of her novels allowed her to move to Cape Cod. While her well-known early poetry is vigorously feminist and political, her later work draws more upon her love of nature and her Jewish heritage. Her many books include the poetry collections Living in the Open (1976), The Moon Is Always Female (1980), Stone, Paper, Knife (1983), Available Light (1988), Mars and Her Children (1992), What Are Big Girls Made Of? (1997), and The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme (2000); her most recent novel, Three Women (1999); and a memoir, Sleeping with Cats (2002).

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