Her heroine in the A Kate Fansler Mystery Series is a mirror image of Cross as she is a feminist and a professor of literature. She asserted that her marriage was her rock during her career and hence dedicated “Where Men Were the Only Models We Had” her last novel to her most influential male role models.Įven as she became popular for the writing of mysteries later in life, she was best known for authoring several scholarly works and many articles interpreting women’s literature from her the feminist view.
Even though Cross was known as a devoted feminist, she was never estranged from her husband or lonely in any way. However, she wrote and had conversations with friends about committing suicide at age 70, before she opted to write about aging gracefully that was published in 1997. Even though she took her own life, friends and family described her as a happy and healthy woman. On October 2003, Cross took her own life by taking an overdose of pills after finishing her writing, reading, and walking around Central Park routine. She would get married to James Heilbrun her college sweetheart, with whom she had three children before completing her masters and doctorates at Columbia.
After her high school, she joined Wellesley College graduating top of her class in 1947. Her family would move to Upper West Side Manhattan, where she spent most of her childhood. In the seven years between 19, she served as Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Department at Columbia.Īmanda Cross was born to Estelle Gold and Archibald Gold in East Orange, New Jersey. As editor, she was responsible for the publication of “Press Gender and Culture” series. She wrote several academic titles focusing on feminist themes and was a co-founder and co-editor of the Columbia University Press together with colleague and friend Nancy K. She was a specialist in British modern literature, particularly focusing on the Bloomsbury Group. Cross went on to teach English at Columbia for over three decades between 19, becoming the first tenured woman in the university’s English department. Some of her experiences at Columbia were documented in the 2002 book “When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling”.
At Columbia, she studied under Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun and listed Clifton Fadiman as one of her greatest inspirations. Cross went to Columbia University where she studied English literature getting her Master of Arts degree in 1951 and in 1951 a Ph.D. Amanda Cross, real name Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American author and academic who was best known for writing feminist and mystery novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross.
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