For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of our female National Book Award Nonfiction Honorees whose expository writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American literature.
Before the publication of Brenda Maddox’s revealing biography of Nora Barnacle, the wife of Irish author James Joyce was little known and much eclipsed by her husband’s literary fame. A 1988 National Book Award Finalist, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom introduced the world to the Irish chambermaid who is long believed to be the model for Joyce’s famed character Molly Bloom.
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