Amanda Cross
ABOUT AMANDA CROSS
An American mystery writer, academic, and feminist, she is best known for her Kate Fansler books, which focus on the adventures of an English professor. Her non-fiction works include Reinventing Womanhood and Writing a Woman's Life.
She graduated from Wellesley College in the late 1940s and subsequently taught English at Columbia University for over thirty years.
She was born Carolyn Gold; she published her mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.
Her husband, James Heilbrun, was a professor at Fordham University. The couple had three children. Sadly, Amanda Cross (Carolyn Heilbrun) committed suicide in 2003.
She taught at Columbia University, where writer Warren St. John once studied.
