Jo Malin

Jo Malin is a Project Director in the School of Education and Human Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth-Century Women’s Autobiographies (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), from which this piece is excerpted, with permission, and co-editor with Victoria Boynton of Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (The Haworth Press, 2003), and the Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography (Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2005). She is a mother of two and a grandmother of two.