James Rogers wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that I buy the notion of a "female"
voice either. The
> writer who wrote women most truthfully, IMO, was
good old D.H.
> Lawrence....
Among living writers, Larry McMurtry is no slouch in the
female voice department. And James Tiptree, Jr. passed for
male for years until her true identity as Alice Sheldon was
finally uncovered. Lee Hoffman, the western writer, never
wrote from a female viewpoint, and probably fooled most
western fans into thinking she was male. Likewise, Leigh
Brackett, in her hardboiled mysteries and SF, wrote
convincing male viewpoint. Howard Hawks hired Brackett sight
unseen to help Faulkner on the screenplay for THE BIG SLEEP
because, based on her novel NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE, he thought
she was a genuine tough guy. Craig Rice wrote "like a man"
and so does Andre Norton. And if you want to read some tough
SF, try ex-Marine Elizabeth Moon. And so on.
Writing isn't gender specific, and any writer worth his or
her salt can fool any academic into thinking they're the
opposite sex on any day of the week.
BobT
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