About

Portrait of Joanna Scutts by Sarah Klock

Literary critic & feminist historian.
London -> New York -> Paris

NEWSLETTER: A WRITER IN PARIS.


BOOKS

COMING SOON (April 20, 2027, St. Martin’s Press):

Good Looks & Bad Manners: American Women who Shook Up Paris, from the Belle Époque to the New Wave.

OUT NOW:

Firebrands: 25 Pioneering Women Writers to Ignite Your Reading Life (2024)

Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (2022)

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (2017)

Represented by Kate Johnson at Wolf Literary

JOURNALISM & CRITICISM

Book reviews and literary essays in the New York Times Book ReviewNew Republic, Times Literary SupplementWall Street JournalWashington Post, Air Mail, Guardian,
& New Yorker online, among others.

Full portfolio at Authory. 

Firebrands

25 Pioneering Women Writers to Ignite Your Reading Life

Stories of women who dared to be different: a beautiful volume celebrating a diverse and international selection of rebellious writers.

September 2024.