Bridget Quinn is the author of Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) and She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next (Chronicle Books, 2020). Her Narrative memoir “At Swim, Two Girls” was included in Best American Sports Writing, 2013. Raised in a family of eleven on the high plains of Montana, Quinn lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children and works at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.


Carol Edgarian is cofounder and editor of Narrative. Her novels include the New York Times–best-selling Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates. Her essays and articles regularly appear in national magazines and anthologies, and she is coeditor (with Tom Jenks) of a popular collection drawn from great writers’ diaries, The Writer’s Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame.

She Votes

Carol Edgarian in Conversation with
Bridget Quinn

In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and the timely publication of She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next, Narrative cofounder Carol Edgarian sat down with author Bridget Quinn for a lively and far-reaching conversation about women’s rights, the power of the vote, the too-often racist lens of history, the renegade (and imperfect) women and men who fought for equality—and those who continue the fight. Guided by Quinn’s She Votes, Edgarian and Quinn talk about trailblazer Sojourner Truth, a girl’s basketball team in Montana, and their own girlhood memories of their first encounter with voting. Join us for a toast to suffrage and enduring friendship.


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