She was an early member of the feminist organization Redstockings. She then moved to New York City to study philosophy at the Columbia University Graduate School and later received an MA in Humanities from New York University. After attending Cleveland Heights public schools, in 1953 she received a BA in history and philosophy from Western Reserve University. Shulman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 17, 1932, to Dorothy Davis Kates, a community organizer, and Samuel Simon Kates, a labor arbitrator. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972), hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement." Early life and education Sackler Center for Feminist Art in 2010Ĭase Western Reserve University, Columbia University, New York UniversityĪlix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism.
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