Meredith Tax

Fiction Writer

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Meredith Tax was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English. While studying in London, she became involved in the anti-war movement and decided she wanted to be an activist. Returning to the U.S. in 1968, she continued her anti-war work and was one of the initiators of Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist organization in Boston. Her first important piece of writing, “Women and Her Mind: the Story of Everyday Life” (1970), is considered a founding document of the women’s movement. Her books include The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917Rivington Street, a leftwing feminist family saga of Jewish immigration; its sequel, Union Square; and Families, a children’s book. Tax served as president of Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s WORLD which has played an important role in exposing the connections between gender and censorship, and in defending women writers under attack. Tax died at the age of eighty on September 25, 2022.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Rivington Street (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
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The Rising of the Women (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
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Union Square (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
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Families, 1996, Familias,1998 (Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996)
Journal:
The Nation

More Information

Identifies as: 
Feminist, Jewish
Born in: 
Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin
Raised in: 
Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin
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Last update: Dec 14, 2022