A Jury of Her Peers, the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000, is an unprecedented landmark in the understanding of American literary history and culture. Author Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita at Princeton University and the author of numerous books, including A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage. Fellow author Joyce Carol Oates writes, “Elaine Showalter, long recognized as our preeminent feminist scholar-critic, whose prose shimmers with wickedly funny asides, has produced the most ambitious and brilliantly executed book of her career.”