Name Ann Scott Role Novelist | Movies Hideous Kinky | |
Books Superstars, Poussieres d'anges, Asphyxie, Bags of Fun Influenced by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Honore de Balzac, Truman Capote Similar People F Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Barnes, Virginie Despentes, Honore de Balzac, Truman Capote | ||
Literary movement Postmodern literature | ||
Ann Scott (born 1950) is a British feminist author born in London to an American father and British mother.
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Education and Career
She studied at Girton College, Cambridge and was News Editor of Spare Rib before working on Schreiner. She then taught psychoanalysis at London University and published in Feminist Review and History Workshop Journal. She worked with Ruth First with whom she co-authored a 1980 book on Olive Schreiner, entitled Olive Schreiner (published by Deutsch, ISBN 9780233971520).
She worked for Free Association Books until she moved to the USA in 1989.
Activism
In 1977, Scott became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.