Modern American Writer
For as long as books have been written and published, men have dominated the profession. There has always been a very noticeable disparity in the gender balance of American authors. “But first, there was a fear that writing was not a manly profession - indeed, not a profession at all” (Theroux, 278). Paul Theroux’s statement in Being a Man seems to be very subjective. What signifies a profession as “manly”? A profession, at its base definition, is a paid occupation.…...
Willa Cather