Marge Piercy is the author of seventeen novels including The New York Times Bestseller Gone To Soldiers; the National Bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women and the classic Woman on the Edge of Time; seventeen volumes of poetry, and a critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan, the recipient of four honorary doctorates, she has been a key player in many of the major progressive political battles of our time, including the anti-Vietnam war and the women's movement, and more recently an active participant in the resistance to the war in Iraq.

A popular speaker on college campuses, she has been a featured writer on Bill Moyers’ PBS Specials, Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, Terri Gross’ Fresh Air, the Today Show, and many radio programs nationwide including Air America and Oprah & Friends.

Praised as one of the few American writers who are accomplished poets as well as novelists — Piercy is one of our country's best selling poets — she is also the master of many genres: historical novels, science fiction (for which she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in the United Kingdom), novels of social comment and contemporary entertainments. She has taught, lectured and/or performed her work at well over 400 universities around the world.

"Marge Piercy is not just an author, she's a cultural touchstone. Few writers in modern memory have sustained her passion, and skill, for creating stories of consequence."
-The Boston Globe

The Crooked Inheritance (now in paperback)
In Marge's latest collection you'll find poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq , health care reform, “the poet as a young nerd,” hospital hallways, and mangoes at the beginning of a new love affair..."Current, punchy and wise." --Joy Harjo.
See two poems from the book:

Deadlocked wedlock about Gay Marriage

Buyer Beware about the Cost of War in Iraq

Sex Wars (now in paperback) is an astonishing historical novel of gender, power, and the American Dream in the 19th Century it is told through the viewpoints of some of the most notorious characters in American history.

"Sex Wars" is that rare book that can satisfy lovers of history and lovers of fiction... This book is the genuine article - a ripping yarn that gives you a real feeling of and for the times and the people." -The Washington Times

"Fascinating and only too relevant!."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Marge Piercy is, unquestionably, a master of historical fiction."
-The Hartford Courant

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See some of the characters and scenes from the book included in the traveling Power Point show, as well as Marge's comments.


Selected as a Best AudioBook of the Year by Library Journal, Louder is the only compact disk recording (also available at Audible.com) of Marge Piercy reading her most popular political poems, including "The Low Road," "To Be of Use," "Right to Life," "For Strong Women," "Rape Poem," "What Are Big Girls Made Of?" and twenty more. It's like having a personal Marge Piercy poetry reading and includes a biography and many family photos.
Listen to the first track of Louder: To Be of Use by Marge Piercy