These Are the 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College Classes
http://time.com/4234719/college-textbooks-female-writers/
Toni Morrison and Jane Austen are among the most-read female writers on college campuses, a new TIME analysis found.
First place on the list—which is based on 1.1 million college syllabi collected by the Open Syllabus Project—goes to Kate L. Turabian for her Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, assigned in 3,998 classrooms over the last 15 years. Turbian is followed closely by Diana Hacker, author of several writing handbooks, with Morrison and Austen in third and fourth places, respectively....
Other writers on the top 100 include J.K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series was assigned in 438 classrooms; Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and Mother Tongue, who appeared on 768 syllabi; and Rachel Carson, whose Silent Spring was taught in 1,032 classes.
But all of them were dwarfed by the 20,124 syllabi featuring William Shakespeare, the most-read author by college students. He’s followed by 16 other men, including Plato and Sigmund Freud, that precede the first female writer on the list. The next 99 most-read female authors are interspersed among 718 other male authors.
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