In celebration of Women’s History Month, throughout March, we will highlight some of the Case Western Reserve women whose accomplishments helped shape the university—and beyond.
Bestselling author and Cleveland native Alix Kates Shulman graduated from the Flora Stone Mather College for Women in 1953. Her 14 books include novels, memoirs, children’s books and more.
Her debut novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, was published in 1972 and went on to sell more than 1 million copies. The coming-of-age novel is considered a “feminist classic.”
Shulman has spent much of her life as an activist, having been involved with the civil rights, feminist and anti-war movements in the 1960s.
She went on to teach at several universities and received an honorary degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.