Amanda Cross Quotes (Images)

Amanda Cross was an American academic and prolific feminist author of both important academic studies and popular mystery novels.  Amanda Cross attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959. She wrote about these three in her final non-fiction work, When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling.
Heilbrun taught English at Columbia for more than three decades, from 1960 to 1992. From 1985 until her retirement in 1992, she was Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia.