“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.” -Ch. 1

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English author, feminist, essayist, publisher, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929. Her novel Mrs. Dalloway was a reaction to WWI, and how European Society was trying to deal with the tragedy. Mrs. Dalloway was used as the basis for the novel The Hours, which was then adapted into acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman.

Listen to an interview with Woolf from 1937 at the BBC

Find out more information about Virginia Woolf.

 Lots of famous authors have served their country in different capacities. Here is a short list of some of them:

World War I

Ernest Hemingway: Drove ambulances in Italy

Thomas E. Lawrence: (Lawrence of Arabia) Infantry Soldier

Wilfred Owen: Second Lieutenant with the Manchester Regiment

Siegfried Sassoon: Infantry Officer

E.E. Cummings: Ambulance driver

World War II

Kurt Vonnegut: Infantry Soldier, survived bombing of Dresden as POW

Norman Mailer: Served in the South Pacific (just passed away Saturday, Nov 9)

1st Gulf War

Anthony Swafford: US Marines (The movie Jarhead was based on his memoir.)