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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Authors' Protagonists
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 12:43:25 EDT
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> Are there any authors who don't fall into this trap?  Who write about
> believable protagonists (not just antagonists) who are of either sex?

How about Boris Pasternak? "Doctor Zhivago" has a whole range of
believable characters of both sexes. (Of course, it's also one of my
most favortie books!)

					Jeff Winslow