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Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell, author and critic, was a long-time staff writer for the Village Voice, New York magazine and Vogue. She has written for many publications, including the New York Times, Esquire, The Nation, Town & Country, The Guardian, the New York Observer and the New York Review of Books. She has served as artistic director of the Sarasota French Film Festival, on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival, as associate professor of film at Barnard and as adjunct professor of film at Columbia University. In 2005, she was a host on Turner Classic Movies' Essentials.

Her books include From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies (1973; revised and reissued in 1989); a memoir, Love and Other Infectious Diseases (1990); and, in 1997, a collection of essays and interviews, Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Films and Feminists. Her newest book, Frankly, We Do Give a Damn: Gone with the Wind Revisited, was published by Yale University Press in the Spring of 2009.