Siri Hustvedt

The books of my life
Nov 2021

The Guardian

The books of my life

Siri talks to The Guardian books section about becoming a feminist, growing into Gertrude Stein, and the comfort of folk tales. She writes about her earliest reading memory (Lonely Doll books by Dare Wright); favorite book growing up (Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad); the book that changed her as a teenager (Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex) and much more.

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