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Your Favorite Women Writers

We asked. You answered. Here are some of Oprah.com readers' favorite contemporary women writers!
By Melissa Hellstern
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Michelle Huneven's Blame

Michelle Huneven

Michelle Huneven's first two novels—Jamesland and Round Rock—were both New York Times notable books of the year. Her novel Blame was one of O magazine's 10 Terrific Reads of 2009. When not writing novels, Huneven teaches creative writing at UCLA and is an accomplished restaurant critic and food writer for the LA Weekly and the L.A. Times. She has also written about food for the New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Gourmet and Food & Wine, winning the 1995 award for newspaper feature writing from the James Beard Foundation.

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Published on February 26, 2010
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