17 Facts About Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy was born on March 31,1936 and is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer.

Marge Piercy's work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.

Marge Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Bert Piercy and Robert Piercy.

An indifferent student in her early childhood, Marge Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with the German measles and rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read.

At a young age, Marge Piercy was married to her first husband, a French Jewish physicist.

Marge Piercy designed their home, where the couple have been living since the 1970s.

Marge Piercy was involved in the civil rights movement, New Left, and Students for a Democratic Society.

Marge Piercy is a feminist, environmentalist, Marxist, social, and anti-war activist.

In 1977, Marge Piercy became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, an American nonprofit publishing organization that works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

In 2013, Marge Piercy signed an open letter, described as an "open statement from 48 radical feminists from seven countries".

Marge Piercy is the author of more than seventeen volumes of poems, among them The Moon Is Always Female and The Art of Blessing the Day.

Marge Piercy has published fifteen novels, one play, one collection of essays, one non-fiction book, and one memoir.

Body of Glass itself postulates an environmentally ruined world dominated by sprawling mega-cities and a futuristic version of the Internet, through which Marge Piercy weaves elements of Jewish mysticism and the legend of the Golem, although a key story element is the main character's attempts to regain custody of her young son.

Many of Marge Piercy's novels tell their stories from the viewpoints of multiple characters, often including a first-person voice among numerous third-person narratives.

Marge Piercy's poetry tends to be highly personal free verse and often centered on feminist and social issues.

Marge Piercy contributed poems to the journal Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art and Literature.

Marge Piercy contributed to the collection of essays by women leaders in the climate movement, All We Can Save.