In case you were curious about which “American Women Writers” are in Bitter Tastes, they include the following:

• Bess Streeter Aldrich
• Mary Austin
• Estelle Baker
• Madeleine Blair
• Virginia Brooks
• Willa Cather
• Kate Chopin
• Kate Cleary
• Rebecca Harding Davis
• Mary Hallock Foote
• Mary Wilkins Freeman
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Sui Sin Far
• Edna Ferber
• Zona Gale
• Ellen Glasgow
• Emanuel and Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius
• Fannie Hurst
• Edith Summers Kelley
• Nella Larsen
• Batterman Lindsay
• Miriam Michelson
• Elia Peattie
• Ann Petry
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• Elizabeth Robins
• Evelyn Scott
• Gertrude Stein
• Edith Wharton
• Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman
• with side trips to Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, W. D. Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Harold Frederic, and Jack London. (Also, as the title says, silent films.)