Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy has written seventeen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers; the National bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; nineteen volumes of poetry, including The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, and Made in Detroit; and a critically acclaimed memoir, Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern, the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she is active in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes.