Jill Ker Conway, Author . Knopf $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-42100-9
Conway's goals and visions as the first female president of elite Smith College during an era in which many women's institutions were going co-ed are the focus of this plainspoken and gracefully written third volume of her memoirs (following
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Jill Ker Conway, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-74461-0
Conway continues her autobiography in this follow up to The Road from Coorain, picking up with her arrival in the U.S. to begin graduate studies at Harvard, and culminating with her being named the first woman president of Smith College in 1975. (Aug
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Jill Ker Conway, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26.5 (238p) ISBN 978-0-394-57456-1
At age 11, Conway ( Women Reformers and American Culture ) left the arduous life on her family's sheep farm in the Australian outback for school in war-time Sydney, burdened by an emotionally dependent, recently widowed mother. A lively curiosity...
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Jill Ker Conway, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-44593-7
Memoirs often include events and thoughts that reveal the author's perception of how they see themselves, frequently excluding known aspects of their lives. Omissions, or a narrow focus, lead Conway (True North; The Road from Coorain) to state that...
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Jill Ker Conway, Author, Sophie Cottrell, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $23 (250p) ISBN 978-0-679-42099-6
Conway ( The Road from Coorain ) continues her autobiography with this account covering the period from her departure from Australia for the U.S. to enter graduate school in 1960 through her appointment as Smith College president in 1975. She is...
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